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

I see in the Seattle Times that the Drug Enforcement Administration is going after the Somalis for a plant called khat.

Drug's effects "Chronic khat abuse can result in violence and suicidal depression," according to the DEA.

In East Africa, growing and partaking of the native plant khat is a traditional part of the culture.

Moves are underway by the Police Narcotics Bureau to ban the import of khat, a plant with strongly narcotic properties that has already been barred in European countries. Police Narcotic Bureau (PNB) ...

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 … ...

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 ...

But the Drug Enforcement Agency classifies khat as a Schedule 1 narcotic, the most restrictive category used by the DEA. The World Health Organization says the plant loses its potency about 48 ...

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 ...

An international drug ring flooded parts of New York, Massachusetts and Ohio with several tons of a narcotic known as khat that came from Yemen, Kenya and Ethiopia, authorities said Friday in ...

Captain Rhodes said Khat is not typically a street drug, but investigators are finding it in major drug busts along I-95. The reason is that Khat gives smugglers energy while they move drugs.