Researchers have investigated the effects of the drug khat on a person’s ability to inhibit undesirable behavior. Frequent use was shown to decrease self-control, with all the potentially dangerous ...

The British government has decided to ban the import and use of khat, after years of turning a blind eye to the herbal stimulant. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...

Researchers investigating the evidence for a potential causal link between khat use and mental illness have called for improved research on the stimulant plant, and its possible association with ...

Dutch and Spanish scientists have warned that long-term use of the drug khat, obtained from a plant native to East Africa, lowers inhibitions with potentially dangerous results. Reckless driving and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Drug services are failing to reach users of khat, exposing the need for a "social care" response, according to a Turning Point report. A survey of 35 users for the report finds none has been in ...

UNALASKA -- Is khat catching on among seafood industry workers trying to stay awake while working long hours of overtime, joining a long list of more familiar stimulants from coffee to pharmaceutical ...

The drug is called khat (pronounced “cat” in Somalia). For many Somalis, khat is a way of life; for the U.S. military, it is an illicit drug subject to seizure. Now, with American forces patrolling ...

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia – Five men and women convicted of smuggling millions of dollars' worth of the illegal African drug khat into the U.S. all received prison sentences of one year or less Friday, ...