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‘Zombie’ drug made from human bones is pushing addicts to dig up graves
Metro ^ | 4/6/2024 | brooke davies

Posted on 04/06/2024 7:19:44 AM PDT by RummyChick

A psychoactive drug made from human bones is leaving addicts digging up graves in order to get their fix.

Police officers are guarding cemeteries in Freetown, Sierra Leone, after more people are turning to the drug Kush.

It is made from a variety of toxic substances, with one of its main ingredients is ground-up human bone.

Human remains contain traces of sulphur, which allegedly can enhance the affects of drugs.

It first emerged in the country around six years ago and induces a hypnotic high which can last for several hours.

One former user Abu Bakhar, 25, told Channel 4 News he gave up hopes of a music career as the drug turned him into a ‘zombie’.

He said: ‘Because of drugs I did not concentrate on studies. Because of drugs I did not concentrate on writing. Because of drugs I did not concentrate on anything’.

Abu is now homeless and lives on a landfill site among a thousand others.

Sierra Leone’s President Bio said: ‘Our country is currently faced with an existential threat due to the ravaging impact of drugs and substance abuse, particularly the devastating synthetic drug Kush.’

(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: humanbones; kush; sulfur; sulphur; zombies
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To: Flag_This

“Sulfur
Sulfur is present in all the cells and extracellular compartments as part of the AAs cystine, cysteine, and methionine. The covalent bonding of sulfhydryl groups between molecules forms disulfide bridges, which are responsible for the tertiary structure of proteins necessary for the function of certain enzymes, insulin, and other proteins. Sulfur is a component of heparin, chondroitin in bones and cartilage, thiamin, biotin, pantothenic acid, and S-adenosyl methionine (SAM-e). It also is a part of glutathione, an important antioxidant.40

Sources of sulfur include animal proteins, legumes, broccoli, and nuts. Sulfur levels are not monitored clinically. No recommended intake has been established.”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/nursing-and-health-professions/sulfur

But if you are drugged out dirt poor might be easier to dig up bones. Or perhaps you think you get the best high with dead bones.

There may be a premium for drug maker to buy up cheap bones.

Barter system. Bring me a full skeleton and I will give you one dose of Kush or some such thing


21 posted on 04/06/2024 7:44:23 AM PDT by RummyChick ( )
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To: RummyChick

Last time I had a chemistry set there was a vial of sulphur. If they really need it that bad they can buy a chemistry set.


22 posted on 04/06/2024 7:45:25 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Delusionary people should not be given power over normal people.)
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To: RummyChick

Also, we could tell the zombies that the drug is made out of bones of bigfoot- it would at least keep them busy for awhile, and who knows how many new species they might discover?


23 posted on 04/06/2024 7:46:47 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: RummyChick

They will soon start killing people to get high off their bones.

We are living in a bad movie.

You try to dig up a family grave to get high, and I will help you into your own grave.


24 posted on 04/06/2024 7:49:19 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: blueunicorn6

Just imagine what they’ll do to Keith Richards’ body when he passes.


25 posted on 04/06/2024 7:49:54 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RummyChick

“An official from Freetown Municipal Council told West Africa Democracy Radio that armed police were being deployed to protect cemeteries in the Sierra Leonean capital after graverobbers harvested bones from several corpses over night.

Sierra Leone Ministry of Health chief, Harold Thomas, told the radio station: ‘They are also even using bones of dead people to actually make these compounds so they can smoke. It’s a menace to society.’

In the past few weeks, police have supercharged efforts to combat graverobbing. Detective Ahmed Sheku Turay said that officers have targeted graveyards in Freetown’s Racecourse Cemetery where people known as ‘Kush Boys’ have been found tampering with graves, local news website Sierraloaded reports.

revealed that recent operations have targeted graveyards in Freetown’s Racecourse Cemetery, where individuals known as Kush boys have been tampering with graves.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13278719/kush-zombie-drug-Sierra-Leone-police-cemeteries-human-bones.html


26 posted on 04/06/2024 7:50:44 AM PDT by RummyChick ( )
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To: Clay Moore

Weemsco Tuna!


27 posted on 04/06/2024 7:50:53 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Clay Moore
"Tuna just doesn’t taste right without the dolphin in it. )^;"

Hat tip to Rush.

28 posted on 04/06/2024 7:51:11 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: dfwgator

keith Richards should donate his body to science. It has survived many a thing including electrocution.


29 posted on 04/06/2024 7:52:51 AM PDT by RummyChick ( )
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To: RummyChick
"Bring me a full skeleton and I will give you one dose of Kush or some such thing"

Or maybe they just tell the addicts that because they think it's hilarious.

30 posted on 04/06/2024 7:53:16 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: RummyChick

More third world trash culture coming to America? Oh great - guess we’re not at the bottom of the barrel after all - thre’s lower to go. Is that monster Soros getting off on the new horror?


31 posted on 04/06/2024 8:02:16 AM PDT by GOPJ (Q: What two items does Biden finds at 'Ice Cream Shoppes'? A: Ice cream cones and 6 year old girls.)
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To: RummyChick

here is an older article on this. For a drug addict living in a drug den the usage is expensive. Thus it creates a cycle of robbery. Much like addiction in the US. Except at least in the US there are social programs that do provide money unlike West Africa

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12946283/zombie-drug-human-bones-kills-users-week-dealers-rob-graves-supply-demand.html


32 posted on 04/06/2024 8:02:35 AM PDT by RummyChick ( )
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To: RummyChick

“I have never been an addict of any kind and thus can’t understand it.”

Me, either.

My neighbor has smoked since she was 14 — is 75 now.

Two years ago she had one leg amputated above the knee.
Last year the other one was amputated above the knee.
It’s from something called Buerger’s Disease, caused by smoking.

Last year was diagnosed with lung cancer. Went through chemo.
Last month was diagnosed with liver cancer. Started chemo yesterday.

Other neighbors see her on the back screen porch, still smoking. During the blizzard this winter, there she was, huddled up and smoking.

I don’t get it.


33 posted on 04/06/2024 8:03:28 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: RummyChick

In the 90’s there were reports of a drug called Jenkem, also from Africa, made from fermented human waste. I think it was just a hoax. This sounds similar.


34 posted on 04/06/2024 8:04:38 AM PDT by paint_your_wagon
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To: RummyChick

US has a zombie drug that is flesh eating.

Can’t remember the name of it.

There was a previous drug called a Zombie drug but it made people go wild. Hard to tase them, etc.


35 posted on 04/06/2024 8:05:30 AM PDT by RummyChick ( )
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To: RummyChick

Just for the record, mind you, are THESE some of the people Pedo Joe Biden’s spokespuppet Cringe Jean Pierre tells us are strengthening our country?


36 posted on 04/06/2024 8:05:39 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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To: paint_your_wagon

There are definitely Kush Boys robbing graves for bones but a cursory search does not find anyone who has forensically looked at the drug to see if it does contain bones.


37 posted on 04/06/2024 8:10:12 AM PDT by RummyChick ( )
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To: 9YearLurker

Yes, she was.


38 posted on 04/06/2024 8:10:27 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Signalman

Lol! absolutely.


39 posted on 04/06/2024 8:14:26 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal! )
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To: lee martell

They say the bones of the B’wana give the best high... and nobody guards the B’wana cemeteries


40 posted on 04/06/2024 8:14:42 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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