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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 12:25:00 CST
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- From: "Jim Thomas (tk0jut1@niu.bitnet)"
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- Subject: Khat Scam
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- For whoever it was that suggested that khat/quat was a dangerous
- drug and wanted a pointer otherwise, here's something from
- Newsweek, 28 Dec, '92 (p. 4):
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- KHAT SCAM
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- Newspapers call it "Somalis' drug of violence," the cause of
- rampages by addled gunmen. The Pentagon is now quietly
- investigating whether its urinalysis tests and drug-sniffing
- dogs will detect it. But drug experts say that fears over
- khat--theleay plant many east Africans chew daily--amount to
- "reefer madness" hysteria. Dr. Lester Grinspoon of Harvard
- Medical School likens khat's effect to caffeine's and
- says Somalis would react to confiscation "like Americans would
- react to someone taking away their morning coffee."
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- Jim (It's the sugar, not the caffeine, that makes folks crazy) Thomas
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