Seven months ago, Naser and Shukria Ali faced drug charges in Washington County for possessing graba, dried khat leaves that many East Africans use as a stimulant. Last month, those charges were ...

A Woodbury bust that netted $400,000 worth of illegal African drug leaves – one of the largest catches of its kind in Minnesota – has led to drug charges against a Minneapolis couple. Prosecutors said ...

The British government has decided to ban the import and use of khat, after years of turning a blind eye to the herbal stimulant. As recently as January 2013, the U.K. Advisory Council on the Misuse ...

The khat’s out of the bag. Federal agents have busted 44 alleged members of a massive drug-smuggling and distribution network they say supplied the nation with a highly addictive East African ...

Flights carrying the mild stimulant khat have been banned from entering Somalia, leaving chewers of the leaves in a stew, write the BBC's Mary Harper and Bella Hassan. In normal times, around midday, ...

CHICAGO (CN) - Two men who distributed a drug-containing plant, popular in Somalia but largely unknown in the United States, out of an Indianapolis coffee shop cannot overturn drug conspiracy ...

Hyderabad: The South Zone task force arrested a youngster for possession and selling of ‘Khat leaves’, a stimulant drug substance. The drug was procured from sources in Ethiopia and Yemen. Khat leaves ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (CBS 2)-- Customs officials at New York area airports are cracking down on a drug called khat. Authorities at JFK's International Postal Facility told CBS 2's Tony Aiello that they are ...

The government may have announced this week it will ban khat, but in recent years shipments of the herbal stimulant have poured into the UK from Africa. One photographer who ventured into a khat ...