Sierra Leone: Is in The Midst Of an illegal Drug Crisis
Maurice Kamara March 23 rd , 2024 Folks, our country has been hit by a full-blown drug crisis. A crisis of monumental scale and proportion leading to cataclysmic tragedy. The drug name KUSH is in circulation in our country and our youths are consuming it in alarming proportions. KUSH is an illegal synthetic drug, a lethal cocktail drug that is combined with various organic chemicals like Acetone, Benzyl Chloride, Chloroform, Ethanol, isopropanol, and some other organic compounds etc. to make KUSH highly potent and toxic. The youths in our country are currently being decimated by this drug. With the increase rate in youth unemployment, insecurity, food insecurity, health insecurity, social insecurity, an increase in poverty and lack of a national youth enterprise development fund to support youth in becoming employment creators and being aware of all these insecurities makes the of killing our brothers and sisters by this lethal and potent drug an urgent issue and state of emerg