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Low cost, plentiful and devastating: The artificial drug kush is walloping Sierra Leone



Kush users in a shack at the Kingtom dumpsite in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Cheap, quick to take effect and easily accessible, kush has proved dangerously appealing to a generation of young Sierra Leoneans growing up amid widespread poverty and unemployment.

Kush, an artificial cannabinoid, is spreading shortly for the promise of a stress-relieving excessive. However what is the affect on customers — and Sierra Leonean society? And the way are the authorities responding?

(Picture credit score: Tommy Trenchard for NPR)



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