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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Wilson McMakin

The war on kush: The synthetic drug sweeping through parts of Africa

Sierra Leone Kush - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

A new report 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 years.

The report by the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime conducted the first known testing of the most common varieties of kush available in Sierra Leone and neighboring West African countries and found that it contained either nitazenes or synthetic cannabinoids.

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