A new report released by an anti-transnational crime group has identified the core chemical components of kush, a synthetic drug that has swept through Sierra Leone and the region in the past few ...

Since its introduction into the retail drug market of West Africa, kush has soared in popularity as deaths associated with it have also soared, according to the report. The synthetic opioids and ...

“Illustratively, in 2023 in Estonia and Latvia ... detected in kush is 25 times more potent than fentanyl.” Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio last year declared a war on kush ...