December 12, 2011 (Doha, Qatar) — Chewing khat, the leaves of the Catha edulis plant, a common practice in Yemen and certain East African countries, increases the risk of death and stroke in patients ...

Read the main article on Kenyan Christians defending khat. Khat use has rarely been studied clinically and “has largely escaped medical attention,” according to Farrah J. Mateen and Gregory D. Cascino ...

In January, the BBC reported that the Netherlands government would ban the use of khat -- the mild, leaf-based stimulant produced largely in East Africa. The ban came as something as a surprise, given ...

Noon in the Yemen. A sullen hour with the sun at its scorching zenith, the entire country is tense, on the verge of a national itch. When matters of war, and near-famine, fade to irrelevance. Relief ...

At the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, chewing Khat predates the use of coffee. Socially, their uses are similar. When chewed, the leaves act as a stimulant due to the cathinone content.

Abdulmalik, a 13-year-old boy from Yemen’s capital city Sana’a, started chewing khat leaves at the age of seven. “My father would pass me small handfuls at weddings,” he told The Media Line. “But I ...

SANA, Yemen — Lithe men with ladders fan through the grove in the morning light. They joke and taunt. Hands quick in grit and shadow, they harvest the narcotic leaves that set this unsettled nation ...

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia – 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, ...

LONDON (AFP) – When Britain bans the herbal stimulant khat, Mohamod Ahmed Mohamed will lose his livelihood. But he fears most for his small Somali community without the leaf that fuels its social life ...

MOMBASA, Kenya — Deep into his stash of khat, Ibrahim Mahdi is buzzing by the time the evening call to prayer begins echoing from a nearby mosque. There will be no Muslim prayers for Mahdi this night.

FLORENCE, S.C. (WMBF) - The Florence County Sheriff’s Office continues to combat drug crimes in the county but they said drug smugglers are using a decades-old drug to move all sorts of illegal drugs ...