The Effects of Khat (Catha Edulis)

By Yousif Al Zarouni

Catha Edulis is a psychoactive plant found in East Africa and Western Arabia. Depending on who you ask, Khat may be considered a deadly drug or a cultural tradition. This book goes into detail on the psychoactive effects whether Instantaneous, Long Term Usage, or Indeterminate. As children we were always taught to never use drugs simply because they are 'bad'. Opinions differ in today's world, people don't want to hear whats healthy and what isn't, they need reason. By reading the effects and the risks of having that effect you will be able to judge for yourself what is good and what is bad. Catha Edulis has been the helper of one and the destroyer of another as they claim. When it comes to debates involving Khat it never ends. It was banned in the U.K on June 24th 2014, however if synthetic drugs are available and are labelled as not for human consumption, is it fair to say that these hard research drugs should be banned as well since they employ much worse effects as well as risks?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Apr 16, 2015
• ISBN: 9781326248673

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The Effects of Khat (Catha Edulis)

By: Yousif Al Zarouni

Dedication

Khat has recently been classified as a class C drug in the United Kingdom. As a law student in the United Kingdom I was very interested on the topic of psychoactive plants, khat in particular. Khat has been legal in the United Kingdom as early as the 1980’s, this sudden change has a great effect on its users who are only a minority, perhaps less than those who use other drugs which are labelled as ‘research drugs’ and use legal loopholes to remain on markets. It has been proven that the side effects of research drugs, synthetics, bath salts, etc. are deadly. That brings about the question, if these many so called research drugs are still legal, how bad must khat be for it to be banned?

This topic has many elements of science involved, growing up with two PhD holding parents who specialize in Microbiology and Biochemistry, I have always enjoyed their fields and this topic has many of