Khat is in the Celastraceae family. There aren't many medicinal or euphoric plants in that family that I know of.
Posted on 03/23/2011 8:46:00 PM PDT by george76
Drug Travels From Africa To Indianapolis In 48 Hours.
Most residents of Indianapolis, including many in the law enforcement community, have never heard of the drug called khat...over the past three years, hundreds of pounds of the drug have been sold on the streets of Indianapolis, mostly to people of African descent...
Khat is a plant that grows plentifully in east Africa, specifically in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.
Users chew the leaves of the plant to release a compound called cathinone, which is considered a "schedule 1" amphetamine and hallucinogen under U.S. law... traffickers used cell phones and sophisticated code to smuggle the drug from Africa to the United Kingdom, then to the United States and finally Indianapolis.
The smugglers used UPS, FedEx and the U.S. Postal system to move shipments of khat into Indianapolis
(Excerpt) Read more at theindychannel.com ...
I know of one of its citizens that is acting like it has had too much khat over the last 2 years.
Diversity, isn’t it wonderful.
I can’t wait till we meet the aliens from
the planet MOngo, with their fantastic
mind altering clysters.
Bottom line, they'll get away with it on multicultural and religious grounds.
You can smuggle a physical product over wireless? Who knew?
I remember the newsmedia going on and on about poor Somalia yelled at the TV at the time to Poppy Bush - Don’t go there!
It sounds like a cross between coca leaf and cannabis.
Sophisticated and Somalia in the same sentence? Color me stunned.
Anyhow, why is khat such a big deal and caffeine not?
Caffiene isn’t a drug. It’s a dopamine inhibitor blocker. Your body’s own dopamine is the drug.
The men sit around a table, chew khat, drink tea, and plan big things. Kinda like a middle east version of Kentucky meth heads in a debate. Same dental results too.
Khat is in the Celastraceae family. There aren't many medicinal or euphoric plants in that family that I know of.
OK, they chew the stuff and it makes their breath stinky, rots their teeth and makes them stupid. How would you tell the difference?
Caffeine readily crosses the blood–brain barrier that separates the bloodstream from the interior of the brain. Once in the brain, the principal mode of action is as a nonselective antagonist of adenosine receptors.[72][73] The caffeine molecule is structurally similar to the aglycone of adenosine, adenine, and is capable of binding the adenosine receptors on the surface of cells without activating them (an "antagonist" mechanism of action), thereby acting as a competitive inhibitor.
During the Battle of Mogadishu (Black Hawk Down), the Somali fighters were all high on Khat.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
So Boise has been infiltrated as well. Disgusting. Well, you’ve joined the ranks of Columbus, Minneapolis and Lewiston, Maine as being infected by the absolute bottom of the barrel subhumans on the planet.
It is sort of like low grade speed combined with a marijuana buzz. You have to chew a whole shrubbery to get high. I tried some when I was on vacation in Yemen.
Pity the poor fool who mistakes poison oak for this.
Khat? Please. Not much different than chewing tobacco.
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