The Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone issued multiple Press Releases some months ago, placing a ban on the importation and sale of Coco Samba, Oga Ar Aeg and a couple of other herbal drinks, for an alleged “suspicious substance it contains”, according to a laboratory test conducted by the Board.

The same ban could have tremendously made stride on the war against Kush in the country, with evidence of hundreds of causalities within the past years.

“Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone, ban the herbal smoke now as you banned the herbal drinks!!”

The Board’s decision to ban the herbal drinks faced several condemnation by many people who see the drink as medicinal asset but that does not in any way stop the ban from taking effect.

We have seen multiple evidence of how Kush has and still continue to ravage our future leaders and so far, not a single evidence has come up of any negative case of Coco Samba reaction on its consumers.

If you can swiftly ban the importation and sale of the herbal drink, why not being able to ban the importation and sale of the herbal smoke called Kush?

I challenge you to provide us evidence of a negative case on consumers of Coco Samba and I will provide you thousands of evidence of negative cases of Kush on its consumers.

Despite many people believed that it is long overdue, some of us are still waiting for those press releases from the Board, banning the importation and sale of Kush in Sierra Leone, as the fight against Kush a national fight that needs support from all and sundry.

Seemingly, Sierra Leone is slowly losing the war to Kush because the drug lords in the business are yet to be brought to book.

Recently, the National Drug Enforcement Agency advanced that the Kush is a synthetic drug made up of different substances, it is not imported in a ready-made form.

“Series of raid and arrest have been made, but how many Kush related cases have been charged to court? I urge the government of Sierra Leone to declare Kush a national emergency by imposing a ban on it and by extension formulating a body that will holistically monitor the chain of transfer of the drugs and the hierarchical structure of the drug dealers in an effort to redeem the lost souls to Kush,” a senior statesman urged.