Psychoactive drug kush has prompted a wave of deaths, mental health issues and the digging up of graves.

Sierra Leone’s president has declared a national emergency over rampant drug abuse.

Kush, a psychoactive blend of addictive substances, has been prevalent in the country for years.

President Julius Maada Bio called the drug a “death trap” and said it posed an “existential crisis”.

One of the drug’s many ingredients is human bones - security has been tightened in cemeteries to stop addicts digging up skeletons from graves.

Groups of mostly young men sitting on street corners with limbs swollen by kush abuse is a common sight in Sierra Leone.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 months ago

      At least for existing known infections. No reason it couldn’t happen to another protein and cause something like muscular dystrophy.