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 ...

Khat, or Catha edulis, is a shrub native to the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Its leaves are chewed for their stimulant effects, a practice deeply embedded in the social and cultural ...

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.

NATIONAL (MSNBC) - When federal drug enforcement agents announced last summer that they had arrested scores of suspects in an "international narcotics-trafficking organization" with operations in New ...

Yonas Getu Molla started chewing khat as an architecture student, when he and his friends would munch on the leafy stimulant late into the night to help them study. When they closed their books, their ...

Khat (Catha edulis), a plant chewed for its stimulant effects by millions in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, is increasingly recognized for its hepatotoxic potential. Its primary active ...

Khat: the cocaine of Africa—the mint green leaf of the shrub Catha edulis—is a way of life in the new nation of Djibouti and the ancient land of Yemen. Grown on large farms resembling old-world tea ...

Khat (Catha edulis) is a plant chewed for its amphetamine-like stimulant effects in parts of East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Its principal active alkaloid, cathinone, produces euphoria, ...