A young man smokes Kush at a hideout in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Monday, April 29, 2024. Sierra Leone declared a war on the cheap synthetic drug, calling it an epidemic and a national threat.

This is about the future of this country after so many years of deep crisis, so many years of an extremely savage civil war," said Victor Angelo, head of the U.N. mission to Sierra Leone.

A young man smokes Kush at a hideout in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Monday, April 29, 2024. Sierra Leone declared a war on the cheap synthetic drug, calling it an epidemic and a national threat.

A synthetic drug ravages youth in Sierra Leone. There’s little help, and some people are chained By The Associated Press Published May 26, 2024 10:05 pm By KEMO CHAM Associated Press ...