Why the toxic synthetic drug is so hard to fight | DW NEWS
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- Опубликовано: 3 июн 2024
- DW News Africa investigates Kush, the drug that is killing West African youth. We visit a drug den in Liberia and take you to Sierra Leone, where the president has declared a national emergency.
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00:00 How addiction to the synthetic drug Kush is rising in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
10.38 Prince Bull-Luseni, Exec. Director, West Africa Drug Policy Network
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That’s not kush, that’s spice
its fentanyl
Spice malange
kush cause deaths of youth he said . HAHAHHA
More likely Tranq. Tranq is a mix of Fentanyl and Xylazine, an animal tranquilizer.
They call IT kush there
Dont call it kush that is just ridiculous.
I'm saying the same thing here cuz when ppl here kush they think is Marijuana and is no. Please change that name and band that drug.
Its easy marketing over there
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
@@venomstylist9812they even call them trap houses 😮 lol when you here kush you think of marijuana rightfully and from the video it looks like a joint it is definitely confusable... If I was a new comer I would think this was some super weed and they got so many strains it could possibly be a new variant
It must be K2
Sounds very much like, that "Kush" is the UK version of "Spice" which is a synthetic cannabinoid
Kush is cannabis
@@j562gee0hdeewestsdegethemuLa Technically, it’s a mountain range and region from which a particular cannabis comes from, but yes.
Oh. In the Midwest, we call it K2
@@Greenlifemusic662 not just the midwest i dont think, accross amereica
Kush is cannabis from the Hindu kush mountains. Its nothing nothing to do with cannabis what they're smoking
Thats not OG Kush...
It’s OD kush
That’s that yoy pao
really doe
Master kush maybe
Who can blame people for wanting to escape the harsh reality?
You can't blame the harsh reality, however you'll still be back to square one afterwards and having to endure an addiction whilst affecting (in a bad way) yourself and the ones around you.
Change your reality don't escape from it
Its pretty hard for them to change that where they live . Look at the country they live in@V0ID_beats
I won’t call it escape, I call it more of a “break from reality” in a way
it only puts a pause on your perception of the problem, it doesn't address the core issue
Re name your drug. Kush is already taken. It's a beloved name for cannabis do not taint it with your nastification.
Yes, Kush is a strain of cannabis that comes from Asia, taking up parts of both Pakistan and Afghanistan. Part of Wakham National Park. South of Turkmenistan and north of Islamabad. It is 800 km of mountain range and some of the most beautiful scenery you've ever seen in your life. Also, it is home to some of the best cannabis that you can find in that part of Asia.
A lot of times, you will see cannabis marketed as Kush, but actual Kush sourced cannabis is extremely rare in the west.
I really wish people would quit besmirching and dragging the name Kush through the dirt.
If you see cannabis in the West, marketed as Kush, 99.9% of the time, it is just a name that sellers put on the product for sales purposes.
At best, if you're lucky, maybe somebody could obtain some seeds from that region, and is now growing them in the west. But the combination of soil, minerals, and altitude will not be the same, wherever it is grown. However, if you are lucky enough to find some...🫠
Note: There is also an area in Africa known as Kush. However, I do not know how much cannabis is grown in that area, if any, or what kind of quality it would be, should it exist.
Truth
You're absolutely right
Cannabis makes people braindead as well obviously
I'm smoking right now
Eyes on China!
My thought as well.... fentanyl takes over another country....
Exactly, they dont know where its coming from ? Of course its from China, like much of the synthetic drugs across the world.
Probably not fent. But there are so many synthetics out there. It’s probably a synthetic cannabinoid but it could be an opioid or cathinone or something or a mixture of some kind
Xylazine?
Thank you.
Kush in Sierra Leone is quite different; it is a mixture of cannabis, fentanyl, tramadol, formaldehyde and - according to some - ground down humans bones.
Thanks for explaining this, because I was confused, lol.
They dug up thousands of graves in Sierra Leone's capital city - to get bones. Raided the main cemetery. It's on RUclips.
Geezus, why the formaldehyde? That stuff is ridiculously toxic
And the secret ingredient- love.
At 5:28 his pupils are extremely dilated after taking it.
I wonder if it's something like meth. That would dilate the pupils. After google search "west africa kush", some news results mention synthetic cannibanoids in some type of mixture?
At 5:05 the drug melts and runs cleanly on the aluminum foil.
Sounds like the first step should be analyzing the drug in a lab.
Cannabis, fentanyl and formaldehyde. (human bones is media bs)
@@michael.Briggs Nope. Its just synthetic cannabinoids.
@@kurtilein3Yeap
@@kurtilein3 We used to be able to buy that stuff at the gas station and these are not the effects.
@@JohnDoe-pk2hs It is a large and diverse class of chemicals, and while some do somewhat simulate the effect of the original plant, others hit like a truck. From witnessing the effect of one of these hard-hitting compounds, you really think there got to be some seriously hard drugs mixed in there. The official guy who thinks he knows whats in there is wrong, but i see where he got the idea. While the milder variants were indeed in stores for a while, the seriously hard stuff was available online as "research chemicals".
Sinthetic canabinoids known as "spice" has nothing to do with marijuana
How hard is it to test the drug . Probably cost less than this new bit. Yikes
Exactly, I call bs.
Warfsre
"It's a health crisis but we didnt even bother to analyze whats inside or where its from" what an embarrassment
It sounds like this is a synthetic drug. Chemists can alter these compounds in an infinite number of ways. Once you criminalize the compound, they will just change the recipe.
It comes from China and maybe Russia. Just like it did before synthetic cannabinoids were made illegal in the US in the early 2010s
Your misinformed, china and Russia gets weed imported from California. California is, and has been the world wide hub of the most powerful and best weed and weed products on planet earth, since the 1970’s. Turn off RUclips and ask somebody that actually knows.
@@jasonstovall1348He isnt talking about weed, you genius
@@jasonstovall1348 its not weed. Its a synthetic.
@@ngonzales3781 a synthetic what jackass????
Opioids@@jasonstovall1348
Cush in Canada is just a type of weed, but it doesn't do that to you
Yeah, this is definetly not it. I do not live in Africa, but I smoked weed all my life. This is probably either some synthetic canabinoid or who knows what..
OG Kush strain.. That isn't even available where I live, closest to get it would be Netherlands, really awful naming. I literally only clicked because of the name and thought, nofukingway.
Yea. They definitely need to change the name. Kush is already taken.
Yes same in uk kush is a type of bud skunk
In Africa they add fentanyl, tramadol and god knows what else. It is not the same drug as sold in the west.
@@relight6931it's called spice but they call it kush in africa they probably think its real weed
Maybe a better question is "why do so many people feel the need to escape from reality?" As the one guy in the kush house said, it helps him forget his problems temporarily. People need the basics, food, shelter, enough to provide them some minimal security and hope on which to build a life.
That's a whole different topic my guy. This is local news about sierra leone.
@@ilkkavatanen8185 No, a lot of addiction is tied up in a lack of prospects, a lack of hope, all across the world.
You cannot solve addiction without looking into the reasons people search out such things.
It is well known that a lot of people turn to such things when an economy crashes for example.
Their reality is horrid 😢
But how would i get there? I live in germany and i keep tellling doctors i just need a stable shelter, food and something to do (job). But all they want to do is give me more drugs : /
Because life is hard..
kush hasn't yet made this buzz in The Gambia, but we have seen people dead using kush. It's a scary drug whose quantity of chemicals is not even known. This is scary.
How can they not know? The government hasn't even tested it yet?
LMAO!
Someone sold you all K2, and called it Kush because no one is going to sell real Kush for 25 cents when the street value is 10$ - 20$+
@@asole100 they aren't talking about weed. They just call it Kush, it synthetic.
What stops you guys from sending it into a lab and check it out?!
😢 synthetic weed devastated my town when I was growing up. Saw people go crazy on it.. I felt crazy when I did it back then as well. They would mix it with normal weed and it would really mess people up in a bad way. Not good to play with.
I used to be an addict. Young men need hope and psycologic counselling not to fall into that trap. Moreover this drug trade has to be stopped. I am sober after a rehab of 6 months in a good clinic.
Where please help me
That's the issue. Hope in a hopeless Country.
You'll be back
You have to create your own light in this crazy insane asylum we call "civilization." If you can't find the reason to be sober on your own, you're doomed.
Good for you 🙂
Affordable mental health resources are lacking in countries both rich and poor. In any major city around the world people can tell you what parts of town to go to for drugs (even non-users can tell you) but few know of places to get help.
2:03 That guy looks like the fusion of Ice Cube and Method Man
For real you right😂😂😂😂
tHIS killed me, intense..lmao
You are not normal
"The source of this drug is unclear" is a lie. Unfortunately and sadly, the users of this drug are expendable.
NO, IT'S VERY CLEAR TO ME THAT IT'S CHINA!
They have trap houses in Africa?
Oh yes
More like trap shacks or shanties
i have been lucky since a young age. i was adopted at 6 and basically had things handed to me but after high school i had to work hard to get what i wanted but recenetly i am struggling financially. what i am saying is that so many people around the world live like this for decades if not all their life and i am seeing the reality of life. money goes a long way and the poor have it so hard. being able to eat 3 4 5 meals a day whenever you want is a luxury. i can see why people turn to drugs, alcochol, and even worse things.
OG kush do be hitting hard
Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
I'm sad that we still don't know the composition of this drug. Africa is not in 2024.
look up
exactly my thoughts as well! How come they do not know anything about this drug... Unacceptable in 21st century
Someone on here already explained exactly what it is. Cannabis, fentanyl, tramadol, and formaldehyde. There are rumors that also contains *ground up human bones.
It's probably Fentanyl (looking at the swaying)
It’s JWH018.
Man it's rough out there. My heart goes out to all the people trying to do good with their lives in Africa. Makes me feel bad for not doing more with the opportunities I have here in Europe..
Good Reporting Edith Kimani ,We are proud of you .
Not very in depth journalism- It seems like the comment section is more informative…
I would think DW would have the resources to do a chemical analysis of the drug and to interview other people who could better describe effects of the drug, where it might come from, etc.
I would expect something better from DW 😕
Preach
Should be named SMUSH. They used to sell this synthetic stuff at gas stations in the USA then DEA banned it. Wish they went in deeper on the chemical composition of what they are smoking. That way the right drugs can be prescribed for treatment and sources will be found.
I feel surprised for some reason to think spice is being smoked in Africa, it's a crazy drug.
They speak very well, why allow life to get the best of you, also this is very dangerous the extent the reporter went through to get this information is amazing but still scary 😮
Thank you for generating awareness 🙏🏼
What else is there to do in West Africa?
West steal their natural resources from them😅😅😅
My wife's nephew in 2010 he was smoking this stuff and it really messed him up and now he is not all there it's sad cause he was a smart kid that was awesome at basketball and could of went to do great things but this synthetic drug messed his brain now he looks lost and still lives with his mom it's pretty sad seeing him.
You're funny. And clueless.
Where is going this world 😢😢
Nobody has taken any to get an analysis!? 😅
Could be fentanyl
it's 100% K2, very addictive, looks like weed, chemicals are used for it. Some shops that sell it legally usually sell the weak kind but if you find some shady store that sells it, they usually have the strong potent kind, that gets you WAY higher than any Kush on earth. Took me years of being sober to finally stop wanting it because it was on my mind almost everyday. Oh, and it's also extremely cheap.
I like this DW report.
This looks terrifying!
Not West Africa. Mention the country please. Stop generalising problems
I think it was done intentionally as a click bait. I was also scared and curious to find out when the caption reads West Africa
In west Africa drug addicts don't exist?:))
@@vladnickul There are drug addicts everywhere and the US is home to most of them.
But isn't Africa a country?
@@phoque121 oi
What is the chemical compound of Kush
They said it is synthetic canabinoid. As for as which one it is, who knows, they got as many formulas as there is funding and chemists. Only in the west, there were at least like 10-20+ known established, named ones, before people started getting addicted to them, worse then oppiates, and analog ban got rid of them.
They should have never existed in the first place, top notch actual weed is already the bomb, but compared to alchohol, barely legal anywhere.
AB-FUBINACA
This is upsetting to know the drug problem is global. I hope all those struggling with addiction can recover
Wow that looks like some powerful stuff, I want some.
need to bring in some Narcotics Anonymous meetings
That never works.
Narcotics anonymous?!? Joining a cult like that is worse than addiction. I was forced to go to na meetings and they basically shunned me for being on methadone to treat fentanyl addiction and adderall to treat adhd. It doesn’t matter that I don’t actually get high from the methadone or adderall to them I am just a junkie. NA is just like the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Mormons. If you don’t assimilate to the hive mind you will be rejected.
K2?
China's way [ast that, this K7
No. What they’re smoking is a toxic mix of multiple things including opioids and formaldehyde
Humanistic reporting by a very smart and talented reporter
It honestly blows my mind that there seems to be not a single agency (even law enforcement) that has a spectrometer for analysis of this drug. We have synthetic cannabinoids and fentanyl all over North America and testing for this stuff is actually pretty easy, but the equipment is cost prohibitive.
I've got my money on it just being really potent synthetic cannabinoids. The rumors of fentanyl seem unlikely, that's not an epidemic currently happening in Africa or Europe. If there is a potent opioid in the mix, I'm going to say it's in the nitazene family.
The fact that they “don’t know what it is” is pretty telling. I would be willing to bet that there is some hidden agenda. It is very easy to test substances like this. Even for the everyday consumer it is not cost prohibitive. So my question is why have they not tested samples of this drug? It is willful ignorance at best. At worst it is an attempt to deceive the public. My money is going on the Latter
lol at the pot heads in the comments getting defensive. Obviously they aren’t talking about weed, words can have multiple meanings. Same idea as “getting stoned” can refer to many drugs
It probably is a synthetic cannabinoid.
As someone who enjoys THC change the name Kush is not synthetic. It would be like naming it chronic or white widow
I feel so sorry for them all
Thank uou
So it's destroying your communities for years but you still don't know what it's made of and where it's from? Man, Africa never stops to surprise me...
What's more surprising is exactly knowing where the drugs come from but still do nothing eg. The US and its drug trade between the Mexican cartels and China they know the source but thepeople are dying on the streets...
in cali when we say kush we're talking weed
Columbia?
Where is cali?
@@Tropicalgodzilla Duh?
Kush is weed
@@khuthadzomukhesakule7270 Not in west Africa
Any guesses as to why one would smoke tramadol with fentanyl? I doubt it actually has formalin - that would choke one badly....but human bones? ¿Quien sabe?
Tramadol cannot even be consumed by vaporization. The compound is destroyed before it reaches the temperature required for vaporization. Fentanyl can be consumed by vaporization but combustion in cigarette or joint like what is shown in the video would destroy it as well so it’s definitely not a mixture of fentanyl and tramadol. They also showed a guy vaporizing a white powder on foil which is obviously something different. My guess is that spice is being consumed by some people and there is also some fentanyl or nitazines hitting the streets There and the officials are either unaware that it is separate phenomena or they are aware of the difference and are equating the two in order to discourage use of both
Finally some good news from Africa.
Do governments in Sierra Leone have access to labs? That's a question?
Looks like downtown L.A. Skid Row
Hi from jamaica can you buy some and take to the lab for testing just saying
It's something called AM followed by a number I cant recal. Its a compound you can pour on literally anything that burns and smoke it
Looks like the effects of 'spice' to me. The main suppliers of chemicals to produce spice during the 'legal high' days were China and Israel, both of which have financial interests in Africa.
Not russia???? It have same intetest, maybe even more
@@donnarumata9942 Netanyahu and Putin are closer than most people realise. Ever hear Netanyahu object to Russian involvement in Ukraine yet he's supported by 'The West'?
They are probably the only 'leaders' that share a mutual respect for each other, all others are 'fair game'.
My friends did that and this doesn't sound right.
@dolceanstar I think you are right about "leaders "... But as you might have seen, Russia already pushed France from Africa and will continue occupations on a bigger scale. Solder and drugging population by cheap substances is common tactics to stifle the ability to adequately respond to the deterioration of life and undermine the ability of young people to unite, express their demands and organize resistance. Naturally, this is done in close cooperation by the governments of these countries, which are corrupted by the russians.
@@JohnDoe-pk2hsthere are a lot of synthetic cannabinoid and some are much stronger than the spice sold at gas stations.
So they can't go undercover buy some , send to lab? I must be a stable genius! It took me about a minute to come up with that plan.
5:05 It's really crazy. The drug is not the problem here. People giving up on life is the problem! Which is totally understandable in an environment like this.
Heartbreaking report
Just legalize cannabis and give people something nature to smoke, not some chemical stuf
It’s likely from china
That is a synthetic cannabinoid but it is more relatable to synthetic opioids in terms of with withdrawal syndrome and addiction in general
I thought it was ok smoking spice off and on for years and one day i was in a coma for 2 weeks. Almost died. They need hope not drugs❤
Smoke some marijuana
Hemp fiber can also be used for textiles as cotton alternative
Longer lasting effects with more pharmaceutical purposes
It's a psychedelic not a depressant or stimulant
And tax it to make money via mass production. Marijuana can be smoked like tobacco given the blend and quality
You could consider it "premium green tobacco" new cash crop
Get a mass spectrometer. It will tell you the composition thus telling you an origin.
Me smoking some Kush in the US thinking that this is not Kush. That must be something else.
They bypassed "high", and went straight to fuckedup.
Not cool using obscenities on sm.
@@joankersting2358
Triggered?
Kush production needs to be multiplied if Europe is to survive
This is just a sad comment.
@@winpalwatiri7267 But true.
It's a fentanyl, tramadol, synthetic cannabinoid mixture.
…that house called Zimbabwe.. I'm touched
😢😢
Its not kush its chemicals😂
If it was prolly wont need this story
They're living in West Africa without many options of escaping from there. I can understand why they would want to find temporary relief from that depressing reality.
That's crazy that like 6 bucks(USD) you could be high all day.
If the youths have something to do, like "job" they will not engage in this.
You've obviously never been an addict 🙄
@@djrampantuk it's not a 100% fool proof method but you must admit that people with a modicum of hope or perspective regarding their own future might not even TRY drugs like this to forget about their worries. So sure, if you're already addicted, getting you a job won't solve the issue. But it's not about that. I mean, a drug just existing doesn't just unravel a functioning society. They unravel those, that already have a lot of desperate people in it.
Thats quite a fantasy
@@paulszki yeah cos the 80s never happened XD
Heaps of addicts hold down jobs on safer drugs
RESIDENT EVIL TYPE ZOMBIE SHEIT.
6:03 the only thing that shook me! Sell what?🤦♂️
Not a word of where it came or how it’s made!!
Hush,hush “we are selling kush”
Why dont they buy the drug and make a drug test a a lab?
No need, more then likely its a synthetic chines drug replicating some form of THC. The only thing to test is how many times more potent this stuff is and I doubt they actually want to know. Normal "kush" doesnt do this so we're talking 25-50 times more potent then the real kush. Imagine quitting weed that's 50x more addicting... not possible without being forced/locked down.
@@Maybe1Someday Yes it is ofc a synthetic cannabinoid, but there are more than 100 so a lab test would determine what it is. I have used 5F-ADB (one of the most potent ones) for 6months and yes the WD is worse than cannabis but it is possible to quit just taper down as much as possible. Opioids and benzos are much worse to quit
Needs more fentynal.
1001 THANK YOU
Isn't that a name for a sort of weed for a long time already?
Resident evil.
Awhh man I had to watch the first few seconds to realize they not takn bout weed! 😅🤣 Don't have people stressing like that!
I smoked Mamba/Spice... stopped taking heroin while smoking it and just slept through the rattle.. horrible stuff.
I be smoking the kush but only in a Backwood. Also there are other names that aren't already being used. Shmlurch. There. You can have that
That name sure fits better 😂😂😂😂
at the end it is another kind of natural selection.
You always have a choice and they have a choice or had a choice.
Another problem africans should solve on their own, do not waste money or donations cause it is not getting any better.
I can remember live aid
and where had the money been gone ?
Lost , had not make much difference cause corruption and ethics and values are the core issues.
Their society should find ways to fix that but not the west.
At the end the fittest will survive and also most african states have still a growing population so not much to worry about .
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Misinformation
When it's deliberate and suits an adgenda, it's dissinformation not misinformation@@wadi5145
Reupload from some time ago!
Spice is still MASSIVE in the UK, you can pick it up advertised as "THC" vapes on the dark web for £10...
Kush should not be confused with the drug of the same name found in the US, which is a mixture of “an ever-changing host of chemicals” sprayed on plant matter and smoked. Kush in Sierra Leone is quite different; it is a mixture of cannabis, fentanyl, tramadol, formaldehyde and - according to some - ground down humans bones.
Lool you don't know what kush is...
They sold this stuff in Europe as legal highs (spice). It is so incredibly addictive and the withdrawal is awful. If you stop for exactly seven days the withdrawal symptoms go away 100 percent. then never do it again.
Wrong 🤣.
Has to be a tranquilizer or spice mix
It's not Kush - Kush is slang term for *Organic* Cannabis.
This Drug is *SPICE*
Legalize cannabis, problem gone...
You need an og Kush, that sticky icky icky kush to become legal, none of this would happen