Breaking the kush curse


A patient standing next to a window ahead of being discharged after successfully finishing his seven-week rehabilitation programme at a government- operated rehabilitation centre in the outskirts of Freetown. — AFP

SINGING sweetly as she packed her bag to leave the rehab centre, Mariama Turay vowed never again to smoke kush, the fearsome drug that wrecked her marriage – and countless lives in Sierra Leone.

“This drug is killing us slowly,” sighed the gentle-mannered 29-year-old, elegantly made up with shiny rings in her ears and nose.

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