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Khat: Feds Arrest 62 in Crackdown on Mild East African Stimulant Herb
Khat, a shrub that grows in East Africa, has been used for centuries as a mild stimulant in the region, with a high similar to that obtained by drinking a lot of tea or coffee. Khat is legal thoughout...
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Feature: DC Moves Toward Stricter Penalties for Khat
For hundreds, if not thousands, of years, residents of the Horn of Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula have partaken of khat, an evergreen plant native to the region. When the fresh leaves of the...
View ArticleKhat is a Harmless Plant. So Why is D.C. Trying to Prohibit it?
As if we don’t already have enough crime problems to worry about here in the Nation's Capital, the D.C. City Council is trying to create one out of thin air. As we reported in Friday's Drug War...
View ArticleWhat's Next, Criminalizing Coffee?
You Can Make a Difference Dear friends,Right now the DC Council is considering wasting time and money on criminalizing a substance called khat.Khat has effects similar to a cup of coffee. Tell them...
View ArticleEurope: England to Ban Methedrone? Nutt Says Not So Fast
Pressure to ban the "legal high" mephedrone is rising in the United Kingdom, especially since it was linked to the deaths of two teenagers on Sunday. But the former head of the Advisory Council on the...
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Europe: Britain to Ban Mephedrone in Two Weeks, Imports Already Blocked
British Home Minister Alan Johnson told parliament on Tuesday that the government will seek to ban the synthetic stimulant mephedrone by April 16. The announcement comes after the Advisory Council on...
View ArticleDutch to Ban Khat
In keeping with the regressive turn Dutch drug policy has taken under its conservative coalition government, the Dutch government said Tuesday it will ban khat, a plant used by people from the Horn of...
View ArticleLooming Dutch Khat Ban Draws Criticism, Complaints
The Dutch conservative coalition government has signaled since January that it intended to prohibit khat, the mild stimulant plant from the Horn of Africa, and now, indications are that the ban will...
View ArticleIgnoring Drug Advisors, Britain Bans Khat
In a written ministerial statement to Parliament last week. British Home Secretary Theresa May announced that her government was banning khat, a mild stimulant plant from the Horn of Africa widely used...
View ArticleChronicle AM -- June 19, 2014
We can watch the marijuana policy landscape shift before our eyes, with legalization initiatives and decrim measures popping up around the country and even Oklahoma Republicans arguing over...
View ArticleChronicle AM -- June 26, 2014
It's UN anti-drug day, and protests to mark it are going on in at least 80 cities around the world, House Republicans move to block DC decrim, the Oregon legalization initiative looks set to make the...
View ArticleHouse Spending Bills Include MedMJ Protections, DC Psychedelic Initiative...
Mexico once again looks set to move forward with medical marijuana, House funding bills include protections for medical marijuana -- but not recreational marijuana -- and more.[image:1 align:right...
View ArticleAZ Poll Has MJ Init With Bare Majority, White House Releases Annual Drug...
A new poll has the Arizona marijuana legalization initiative at 51%, the natural psychedelic decriminalization movement comes to Ann Arbor, and more.[image:1 align:right caption:true]Marijuana...
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