Liberian Police Arrest Car Full of Drugs From Sierra Leone

The Liberian Drug and Enforcement Agency (LDEA) and police have arrested an imponded a vehicle from Sierra Leone at the Liberian-Sierra Leone Border.

Authorities in Liberia say the vehicle, seized at Bo-Waterside contained 400 compressed plates of marijuana. The driver of the vehicle is still at large after the car was stopped for a routine check at the border. Meanwhile, the Liberian police say they have launched a manhunt for the driver and could be apprehended soon.

Although the vehicle is registered with Liberian plate AG 1253, some Liberians have raised concern over the proliferation of narcotics in the streets of especially the capital, Liberia. Authorities are saying that most of these narcotics including kush and marijuana are smuggled into Liberia from Sierra Leone.

While Liberia is grappling with their drug epidemic, the situation is also similar for Sierra Leone which has seen increasing number of narcotic-related deaths.

Medical experts in Sierra Leone that kush in Sierra Leone is different and more dangerous than others. They warned that Sierra Leone’s kush is a mixture of cannabis, fentanyl, tramadol, formaldehyde and in most cases, ground human bones.

Some experts agree that most of the substances used for the mixture like fentanyl and tramadol are sourced from clandestine laboratories in China and other parts of Asia.

Formaldehyde is believe to cause hallucinations while human bones are sourced because of their sulfur which causes a high. Medical experts warned that persistent intake of sulfur in high magnitude leads to physiological effects.

The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) says that although fentanyl is an opiod like morphine, the substance is more than 50 times more potent that morphine if when consumed persistently leads to stupy, changes in pupil size, respiratory failure, coma and death.

Fentanyl is the chief of the high as it produces euphoria, confusion and sleepiness -a condition widely visible in addicts.