๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA), drugs such as heroin, cocaine, hallucinogens, crack, amphetamines, marijuana, alcohol, inhalants, prescription drugs, and kush are damaging Liberiaโs youthful population. As a result, they dwell in unfinished buildings and cemeteries, smoke dead bodiesโ bones mixed with drug, among others.
๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ population damaging themselves with illicit drugs, especially with โKushโ, which the Egyptians allegedly used for embalmment, troubles the LDEA, and professionals of the drug-fighting agency are calling on lawyers, religious leaders, the government, civil society, and so on, to declare the drug distress an emergency.
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐๐ LDEA the drug epidemic battle is challenged in several ways: the LDEA lacks manpower, logistics, motivating salary structure, among others. Narcotic drug combat is costly and the government impairs LDEAโs scope of operation with little budget, which limits the agencyโs robust mission to clampdown on importers, dealers and users nationwide.
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ should have served as whistleblowers for drug being on the rampage and it negatively destroying potential youths of Liberia, are dealers and users. Pipeline, Wein Town, Barnersville, King Gray, Redlight communities and several counties are the hub of illicit drug transaction, according to a source at the LDEAโs office at Fiamah community.
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ are on the in-coming Unity Party administration to clampdown on drug dealers, importers and users as it accuses the CDC-led government of smuggling drug, especially kush, which is making several youths and adults useless and causing them to commit crime.
๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ passed the new amended drug law, and it was subsequently signed into law by President George M. Weah in August 2023, but it lacks implementation. The public consequently refer to it as a toothless bulldog. The substance abuse law provides penalties for drug possession or use, supply, trafficking, production, an alternative to incarceration, harm reduction, public health and human rights, confiscation of properties, among others, and will also reduce the number of disadvantaged youths in the streets. The law, which is on the book without implementation, has caused the substance abuse to spread like wild fire, frustrating parents and guardians because their children keep falling prey to narcotic drugs.
