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Sunday, 4 January 2009

Khat -- for you more coffee or cocaine?

Some might be surprised to see Khat, being compared with drug. But Los Angeles Times
has posted a long article that brings up the legality issue of this leaf and the opinions from diffirent prespectives.

"It is a very touchy subject. Some people see it like a drug; some people see it like coffee," Abdulaziz Kamus,

"It is not coffee. It is definitely not like coffee," "It is the same drug used by young kids who go out and shoot people in Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan."Garrison Courtney.

read full articel

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Khat is second to cofee that Ethiopia exposrts, according to the article and many people chew it too. Hence, there is no legality question. How do you see khat, though? Just reflect it to yourself and children and think of what would you like to be the realtion you and your chldren have with khat.

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