In Liberia, a cheap synthetic drug called kush has quietly dismantled the futures of a generation, pulling young people from classrooms and families into street addiction while an underfunded justice system records only eight convictions from over a thousand arrests. The same corridors that carry kush to the most vulnerable also serve as highways for international cocaine networks moving hundreds of millions of dollars through the country largely unchallenged. What unfolds in Monrovia's neighborhoods is not merely a drug crisis but a parable about who bears the weight of enforcement and who es
Liberia's kush epidemic: Traffickers thrive as convictions lag arrests
Young people across Liberia have abandoned school and homes for street addiction; families struggle to afford rehabilitation while children slip into homelessness and dependency.