Sierra Leone Declares Drug Abuse ‘National Emergency’

Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio has vowed to combat the polydrug kush, saying that drug abuse in the West African nation is a “national emergency.”

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio said Thursday that the West African nation was facing “an existential threat due to the devastating impact of drugs and drug addiction — in particular the devastating synthetic drug kush.”

Scores of young Sierra Leoneans have become addicted to kush, a drug that threatens the lives of its users and…