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Is khat posing a new drug threat in SA?
Khat, a stimulant or recreational drug, is being used more in South Africa. While the plant itself is not new to SA, its use as a stimulant drug has increased. This is mostly due to the growing ...
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Is khat the new drug threat in South Africa?
Khat, a stimulant or recreational drug, is being used more in South Africa. While the plant itself is not new to SA, its use ...
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Yemen’s own catnip ‘Qat’ becoming a huge burden on already starving land
At Shumaila market, in the southern part of Sana'a, Shayef al-Thibyani, a taxi driver, checks different types of locally grown khat [or qat], the leafy plant chewed as a stimulant in Yemen and the ...
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In Somaliland, a sin tax for mental health relief
It was the fall of 2024, and Jama, 37, had been chewing Khat that day, as he often did. Khat, an innocuous-looking, evergreen shrub that grows predominantly in East Africa, contains stimulant ...
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Beyond the politics, here is what science says about miraa, muguka
The World Health Organization (WHO) lists khat as a drug that creates "dependence" in people, meaning it produces a continuing desire to keep using it. In the 2013 World Drug Report, khat was ...