Sierra Leone’s president has declared a national emergency over rampant drug abuse.
Kush, a psychoactive blend of addictive substances, has been prevalent in the country for years.
President Julius Maada Bio called the drug a “death trap” and said it posed an “existential crisis”.
One of the drug’s many ingredients is human bones - security has been tightened in cemeteries to stop addicts digging up skeletons from graves.
Groups of mostly young men sitting on street corners with limbs swollen by kush abuse is a common sight in Sierra Leone.
Do you want prions? Because that’s how you get prions.
Not much danger there, actually. Prions are primarily gained from eating the central nervous system.
At least for existing known infections. No reason it couldn’t happen to another protein and cause something like muscular dystrophy.