“I would hear things like ’men are not being good fathers as they chewed khat'. “And 'people who are chewing khat might, as a consequence, not be looking for work'. “But in ...

One can chew the leaves and buds fresh or dried. Other names for khat are qat, kat, chat, and qaad. Khat is sometimes mistakenly confused with ketamine – a dissociative drug used in South Africa.

It has been scientifically proven that the most efficient way of extracting the two chemical compounds is chewing fresh khat leaves as they are readily isolated from the leaves by the active ...

There are many people, in the Yemeni and Somali communities in particular, who chew khat and view it as a big part of their cultural identity. I was interested in revealing the human aspects ...