Khat, a stimulant drug, is chewed by around 90,000 people in the east African and Yemeni communities in the UK. But now the Home Office is considering banning the substance. Jamal Osman finds out why.

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 ...

The herbal stimulant khat is to be banned by the government, against the advice of its own Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. In January the ACMD said khat should remain a legal substance ...

Khat in Somali Culture 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 ...

The drug ring smuggled the drug from Yemen, Ethiopia, and Kenya into New York and beyond, according to a 215-count indictment unsealed Friday in Brooklyn by the state's Attorney General.

Khat – the stimulant leaves and twigs of the plant Catha edulis – seemed to have secure legal status in Kenya despite being illegal elsewhere.It had been declared an official cash crop in 2016 ...

The khat 'gold rush': Extraordinary picture shows boom in imports as dealers race to cash in before drug is made illegal next year. Last week 160,000 sticks of khat - a flowering shrub that ...

Little functions in the Horn of Africa without the drug khat, and trade in the popular, amphetamine-laden leaf is proving to be crisis-proof. Khat sellers have risen to become their family’s ...

A bunch of best quality khat costs around £27 ($40) but bags of its leaves can be bought for just 67p. The export trade to Europe is monopolised by Somali families, many of whom create links with ...

Almost 450 pounds of khat, a stimulant drug made from the leaves and twigs of evergreen shrubs, were found by U.S. border protection officers on the Ambassador Bridge late last month. U.S. Customs ...

A drug bust during the weekend netted a boxful of a substance authorities don’t see too often in these parts. A nearly 17-pound box of khat — a plant popular ...

A decade ago, a stimulative drug that sold for just a few pounds, was banned in the UK. Known as khat, it’s a plant that’s chewed, giving similar effects to amphetamine. Ten years on from the ...