Everything I ever read about khat is that it’s an expensive time and money-waster. The principle social cost in the countries where it’s chewed is that the menfolk spend money they cannot afford on it and spend hours each day, chewing and shooting the s-—t when they should be working.
Only during our Somali misadventure did the media discover it and start spreading rumors of it turning teenage milita members into berserker psychos. Malarkey.
Although, I’m quite sure a synthetic refined version could be just as bad as cocaine from coca leaves the plain leaf is relatively benign.
Yup cathinone is available.
And you can take cold pills and certain tropical fish tank medicines and make methcathinone, which is more potent.
You nailed the root of the problem- the media learned of a new way to get high and the feds made it Schedule 1 (with heroin, cocaine, and cannabis) to keep us save. Now Somali immigrants get busted for possession and go to jail.
“Everything I ever read about khat is that it’s an expensive time and money-waster. The principle social cost in the countries where it’s chewed is that the menfolk spend money they cannot afford on it and spend hours each day, chewing and shooting the s-—t when they should be working” we call it beer.