In central Kenya, one crop is taking over. It’s not food, nor fiber, but a mild drug known locally as muguka, and elsewhere as khat. Reuters reports from Central Kenya that many farmers are switching ...

Since then, khat started to become banned in countries across the world. What Is Khat? At the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, chewing Khat predates the use of coffee.

Even though khat smuggling continues to grow in the United States, the level is nowhere near that of drugs like marijuana, cocaine, heroine and methamphetamine.

It’s an oval-shaped, bitter tasting leaf that makes you chatty after chewing it, while inducing a feeling of euphoria and alertness.

Khat's popularity is growing as more members of the middle and upper classes are chewing the leaf. The natural stimulant is considered to be mildly addictive and the leaf has become the country's ...

Kenyan khat farmers seek gov’t help to boom again after COVID-19 Kenyan farmers say they need aid to keep growing the stimulant prized across East Africa and parts of the Middle East.

In New York, three Somali men were recently convicted of smuggling khat, a leafy plant that produces a high when chewed for long periods. Immigrants in Minneapolis-St. Paul, home to three of the ...

Five men and women convicted of smuggling millions of dollars' worth of the illegal African drug khat into the U.S. all received prison sentences of one year or less Friday, significantly short of ...

Khat falls into the class C drug category but it isn't recorded as a specific drug in seizure data A decade ago, a stimulative drug that sold for just a few pounds, was banned in the UK. Known as ...

An estimated 80 per cent of agricultural irrigation in Yemen goes to a single crop and one that does little to put food in bellies or bring in hard currency from abroad. It's called khat and the ...