[rineaux]

Don’t know how khat got into the states, because I swear the War on Drugs is working.

[Global2010]

Police said one deterrent is the drug’s lack of a shelf-life. Once cut from the stalk, it loses potency within two days.

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So they Fed Ex it from Africa?

[Brad from Tennessee]

Khat is popular in Somalia and reportedly was used by warlord Mohamed Aidid’s forces portrayed in “Blackhawk Down.”

I’ve never tried it but from what I hear it is on the level of chewing Jimson Weed pods whose ingredients are the belladonna alkaloids atropine and scopolamine. I don’t believe this stuff will ever have much of a market.

http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/concern/khat.html

[P.O.E.]

Exotic shrub a choice of cabbies.