Amid the billowing soot and the stench of decay, young people like Zainab gather to purchase kush, a cheap synthetic drug wreaking havoc on communities. The landfill, a symbol of the city's ...

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Michael Cole receives funding and "in kind" support from the European Union and a number police forces and forensic science organisations around the world to carry out research. A new drug called ...

He is accused of attempting to smuggle in nearly eight kilograms of kush. The drug has wreaked havoc in West African countries in recent years, especially in Sierra Leone, The Associated Press ...

A highly addictive cheap drug called kush, originating in Sierra Leone ... The drug first appeared in Sierra Leone in 2016 and has been wreaking havoc there since 2020. The highly addictive and cheap ...

Tommy Trenchard for NPR It's barely 9 a.m. but the cramped alleyways of Kaduna in the western end of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, are already packed with young men. They sit hunched over on ...

He is accused of attempting to smuggle in nearly eight kilograms of kush. The drug has wreaked havoc in West African countries in recent years, especially in Sierra Leone, The Associated Press ...

The Main Ingredients in Sierra Leone's Kush Are Synthetic Opioids and Cannabinoids, Report Finds DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A new report released Tuesday by an anti-transnational crime group has ...