Sierra Leone: President Maada Bio Has Declares Emergency Over The Drug “Kush” made from dead human bones.

The Republic of Sierra Leone has declared a national emergency over the use of a drug said to be made from dead human bones called Kush. Most Addicts have become so desperate for the kush, they have reportedly turned to robbing graves yards to make the “highly addictive” substance to keep up with the market demand. Therefore Police have been obligated to guard cemeteries in the country’s capital of Freetown to prevent the desperate dealers digging up human remains to make the potentially deadly addictive substance.

The spike in kush use has seen Freetown’s main cemeteries request police security to protect themselves from young men digging up skeletons grinding them up as human bone is one of the many ingredients used to make kush, although it is not clear why. This Kush is a psychoactive blend of addictive substances and has been prevalent in the country for some years now. Some of the ingredients involved in making it is thought to be human bones which experts are worried as to what it does.

For these reasons The President Julius Maada Bio has branded the drug a “death trap” and said it posed an “existential” crisis and a danger to the society. In his nationwide broadcast on Thursday night (April 4), he said: “Our country is currently faced with an existential threat due to the ravaging impact of drugs and substance abuse, particularly the devastating synthetic drug kush.”

At the moment most neighborhoods have been taken over by “zombie-like” drug addicts who have been known to sleep standing up, walk into traffic or fall from high places unexpectedly. Hence groups of mostly young men sitting on street corners with limbs swollen by kush abuse is a common sight in Sierra Leone. About 63 percent of the hospital’s current patients were admitted as a result of kush-related health complications. Meanwhile no official death toll has be recorded, hence the mix of cannabis, fentanyl and tramadol – a strong painkiller used to treat severe conditions – is thought to have caused hundreds of fatalities in recent years, according to the government of Sierra Leone.

Furthermore President Bio has ordered the creation of national task force on substance abuse to set up a mechanism to implement a five-step strategy for what he called a drug-free future the country. The Director of Sierra Leone’s only psychiatric hospital, Abdul Jalloh, welcomed Bio’s declaration as a crucial step towards addressing drug abuse. Moreover Between 2020 and 2023, admissions linked to Kush increased by a whopping 4,000% to reach 1,865 as recorded. This deadly drug first emerged in Sierra Leone around six years ago and induces a long-lasting, hypnotic high which can deprives h users from consciousness for hours. With about about 20p per joint a consumer can be in its possession and can consume over $10 per day considering the financial capacity of the consumer.

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