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, ...

Opinion is divided on whether banning khat in the UK is the right thing The leafy plant khat, which acts as a stimulant when chewed, is about to become a banned class C drug in the UK. But how big a ...

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The documents noted that until 2013, there had been no khat seizures in the Bay Area for more than ten years, but the drug’s sudden surge in popularity is not limited to California. Last week in New ...

Farmers in Kenya have been hit by a Dutch ban on imports of khat Some analysts say there are purported links between the khat trade and terrorist funding It’s an oval-shaped, bitter tasting leaf that ...

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 khat ...

The feds seized nearly 7 tons of the stimulant drug khat during separate inspections at a New Jersey container terminal, Customs and Border Protection officials said Friday. One shipment was falsely ...

Women make packages of khat leaves using banana leaves to wrap the drug at Athiru Gaiti's (Atherogaitu) khat market in Kenya in 2017. This story was a collaboration between TIME, The Fuller Project ...

ADDIS ABABA — The cultural tradition of chewing khat, a leaf that is a mild narcotic, is on the rise in Ethiopia. The East African nation is one of the world's chief exporters of the crop, earning ...