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‘Zombie’ Drug Made From Human Bones Is Pushing Addicts To Dig Up Graves
Metro | 4/6/2024 | Brooke Davies
A psychoactive drug made from human bones is leaving addicts digging up graves in order to get their fix.
Police officers are guarding cemeteries in Freetown, Sierra Leone, after more people are turning to the drug Kush.
It is made from a variety of toxic substances, with one of its main ingredients [being] ground-up human bone.
Human remains contain traces of sulphur, which allegedly can enhance the [e]ffects of drugs.
It first emerged in the country around six years ago and induces a hypnotic high which can last for several hours.
An official from Freetown Municipal Council told West Africa Democracy Radio that armed police were being deployed to protect cemeteries in the Sierra Leonean capital after graverobbers harvested bones from several corpses overnight.
Sierra Leone Ministry of Health chief, Harold Thomas, told the radio station: ‘They are also even using bones of dead people to actually make these compounds so they can smoke. It’s a menace to society.’
In the past few weeks, police have supercharged efforts to combat graverobbing. Detective Ahmed Sheku Turay said that officers have targeted graveyards in Freetown’s Racecourse Cemetery where people known as ‘Kush Boys’ have been found tampering with graves.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13278719/kush-zombie-drug-Sierra-Leone-police-cemeteries-human-bones.html
