Britain's large Somali community chews at least seven tons a week of a drug banned in most Western countries.

It’s an oval-shaped, bitter tasting leaf that makes you chatty after chewing it, while inducing a feeling of euphoria and alertness. The East African plant khat, a mild narcotic, has been chewed ...

But to the Somali Americans who live in King County, khat (pronounced "cot") is more like a strong cup of coffee, enmeshed in the social fabric of East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

Khat has become so enmeshed with Somaliland’s culture and daily life it has become an important tax earner for the government. In 2014, khat sales generated 20 percent of the $152m budget.

Khat - is it more coffee ... like New York City’s “Operation Somali Express” bust in 2006, ... “I don’t think we are going to see American teenagers chewing the plant,” said Phil Garn, ...

The khat bible is Oxford historian Neil Carrier's study, Kenyan Khat, published in 2007 by Brill. You could do a lot of chewing for the cost of this book, but for drug historians it should produce ...

As a Prosecutor, Amy Klobuchar Went After Somali Users of Khat, an Herbal Stimulant . Criminal justice scholars say that khat, an herbal stimulant used in parts of Northeast Africa and the Arabian ...

Authorities say it was one of the largest khat smuggling rings ever disrupted, importing tens of thousands of pounds of the leaf, worth about $5 million, into the U.S.

Not even the Somali-led insurgency in southeast Ethiopia has interrupted the rapid transshipment from Diredawa to Djibouti. The khat run has been a twice-daily affair on Ethiopian Airlines.

Khat In The Somali Community is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku ...

Khat chewing in the Middle East and Eastern Africa Chewing khat is a part of social traditions in some parts of the Middle East, such as Saudi Arabia and Yemen, and in Eastern Africa, like Somalia.