Sentences with word «khat»

The long - awaited ban on khat comes into force at midnight, despite fears the move will criminalise communities from the Horn of Africa

It criticised the Home Office for not undertaking any consultation at all with members of the Somali, Yemeni and Kenyan communities who use Khat in the UK - or those who produce it abroad.

Chewing khat leaves is a popular ritual in some east African communities.

The long - awaited ban on khat comes into force at midnight tonight, despite fears the move will criminalise communities from the Horn of Africa.

Those running khat chewing houses, known as mafreshis, are being encouraged to transform their business into a cafe or take up alternative employment like taxi driving.

The government has decided to push ahead with a ban on Khat despite their own advisers finding no evidence that the herbal stimulant causes social or physical harms.

Under low prices, farmers anticipate clearing forest for cereal, corn, or khat crops, or large government - sponsored sun coffee farms, threatening habitats of all types.

Alternatively, the word Khat, a plant widely used as stimulant in Yemen and Ethiopia before being supplanted by coffee has been suggested as a possible origin, or the Arabic word quwwah» (meaning «strength»).

The Home Office's own report from 2011 found there was «a general lack of robust evidence on the link between khat use and social harms».

By controlling khat the aim is to curtail its availability and reduce demand,» he said in a written statement.

The government has made no assessment of the extent to which crime levels in Yemeni and Somali communities will rise after khat is banned, a minister has admitted.

The required amount of khat needed for someone to get high is physically large, so users may be tempted toward narcotics which can be more easily concealed.

In 2012 - 13, khat export revenues for Ethiopia were estimated at # 160.1 million.

It recently advised the government not to ban the relatively harmless drug khat, which it ignored.

The government halted a Commons debate on adding khat to the drugs controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act to wait for the home affairs committee report — suggesting it is nervy about the move and liable to take the committee's findings on board.

MPs concluded that the potential negative effects, both on the diaspora communities who consume khat in the UK, and on the growers who cultivate it in Africa, outweighed any possible benefits of the ban.

Craig E. Banks, in collaboration with Oliver Sutcliffe, notes that the high - inducing substances in bath salts, which are synthetic cathinones that also go by «plant food,» «glass cleaner» and a number of other innocuous - sounding names, are derived from a stimulant in a plant called khat.

The highest level — 5809 becquerels of radon per cubic metre — was in the Sakhm Khat Pyramid at Saggara, south of Cairo.

Mephedrone, or 4 - methylmethcathinone, is part of a family of synthetic cathinones created to mimic khat's stimulant properties.

Important endemic plants include the Pondo coconut, the Pondoland ghost bush, Pondoland conebush, Pondo poison pea and Pondo Khat.

Khao Khat is eight kilometres east of Phuket Town and covers the west coast of Cape Panwa.

A warm report from our GD Correspondent Khat O'Brien in the Pittsfield, MA as she talked about getting geared up for her guerilla urban gardening adventures for spring.

«The expert Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs conducted a thorough review of the evidence and concluded that no social or medical harm resulted from the use of Khat.»

After all the Home Office were perfectly happy to ban Khat despite its relative safety.

do you also provide opium or hashish or khat?

«On the basis of the available evidence, the overwhelming majority of council members consider that khat should not be controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.

«The ACMD considers that the evidence of harms associated with the use of khat is insufficient to justify control and it would be inappropriate and disproportionate to classify khat.»

At various times in recent years, khat has been Ethiopia's second most lucrative export product after coffee.

A study by the Advisory Council on the Misue of Drugs last year found «no robust evidence» that Khat is damaging.

The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) guidance said: «It is important that officers... retain their operational discretion; taking into account that khat has historically not been a controlled drug and was part of the culture for certain communities linked to the Horn of Africa.»

Home Office minister Norman Baker insisted it was «too early» to judge the extent to which the khat ban will lead to rising crime.

«In summary, the evidence shows that khat has no direct causal link to adverse medical effects,» its report found.

He has been very circumspect about the dreadful decision on khat but his apparent determination to prohibit legal highs is very worrying.

Or does it refer to khat (also called qat) a plant with an amphetamine buzz..

The report said there had been no convincing evidence that the consumption of khat is linked to any medical or social harm, and found that to control it as a Class C drug would be «disproportionate».

Earlier this week, Kenyan MP Florence Kajuju urged the UK not proceed with the ban on khat, which has a significant role in cultural and social pastimes for many Africans.

Theresa May's ban on khat was not based on any evidence of medical or social harm and must be stopped before it becomes law, an influential committee of MPs found today.

Mohamed Tarat, 27, the manager of Gourmet Deli at 304 Lenox Ave., was the only person to be charged following the July 2 raid of five neighborhood bodegas in Harlem and East Harlem during which investigators netted 8,000 packets of synthetic marijuana, 114 Viagra pills, six Ziploc bags of Khat and 13,400 untaxed cigarettes, authorities said.

The six Ziploc baggies of khat, an illegal narcotic African plant, were found hidden in a space inside the staircase above the deli, according to the criminal complaint.

The 20 drugs rated in the studies were alcohol, amphetamines, anabolic steroids, benzodiazepines, buprenorphine, butane, cannabis, cocaine, crack, Ecstasy, GHB, heroin, ketamine, khat, LST, mephedrone, methadone, methamphetamine, mushrooms, and tobacco.

MDPV is related to cathinone, a natural stimulant found in the khat leaves traditionally chewed in Northeast Africa and Arabian Peninsula regions, but it also shares structural similarity to methamphetamine and MDMA.

MDPV (3,4 - methylenedioxypyrovalerone) and other «bath salts» drugs are actually derived from cathinone, the principal active ingredient in khat, a leaf chewed for its stimulant effects throughout northeast Africa and the Arabian peninsula.

Mephedrone is a synthetic analogue of the herbal amphetamine cathinone, found naturally in the leaves of the khat plant, Catha edulis.

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