Drug raids target African plant 'khat' By Brian Rogers, Legal Affairs Reporter, Houston Chronicle Dec 1, 2013. Khat is chewed, smoked, made into a tea or sprinkled on food.

Scientists have warned a legal plant-based drug that is popular among British students could lead to both reckless driving and criminal behaviour. Khat is a leaf obtained from a plant native to ...

The District is moving to stiffen penalties for a little-known drug that authorities suspect is used by cabdrivers in the city to stay alert and to finance terrorism overseas.

I see in our paper, here, that the Drug Enforcement Administration is going after the Somalis for a plant called khat. Almost 25 years ago I was in Lamu, a place in Kenya near the border of ...

A drug bust in Mankato during the weekend netted a boxful of a substance authorities don’t see too often in that area. A nearly 17-pound box of khat — a plant popular and legal in East Africa ...

CHICAGO (CN) – Two men who distributed a drug-containing plant, popular in Somalia but largely unknown in the United States, out of an Indianapolis coffee shop cannot overturn drug conspiracy ...

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 ...

It's legal in much of Europe, East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, but the khat plant is an illegal narcotic in the United States. Authorities said they arrested a Stone Mountain man driving ...

Khat, a stimulant or recreational drug, is being used more in South Africa. While the plant itself is not new to SA, its use as a stimulant drug has increased. This is mostly due to the growing ...

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.