ALEXANDRIA, Virginia – Five men and women convicted of smuggling millions of dollars' worth of the illegal African drug khat into the U.S. all received prison sentences of one year or less Friday, ...

The British government has decided to ban the import and use of khat, after years of turning a blind eye to the herbal stimulant. As recently as January 2013, the U.K. Advisory Council on the Misuse ...

NATIONAL (MSNBC) - When federal drug enforcement agents announced last summer that they had arrested scores of suspects in an "international narcotics-trafficking organization" with operations in New ...

The legality of khat varies widely. It is legal and widely consumed in East Africa and Yemen but banned in countries like the United States, Canada, and the UK, where cathinone is classified as a ...

Moves are underway by the Police Narcotics Bureau to ban the import of khat, a plant with strongly narcotic properties that has already been barred in European countries. Police Narcotic Bureau (PNB) ...

NEW YORK (CBS 2)-- Customs officials at New York area airports are cracking down on a drug called khat. Authorities at JFK's International Postal Facility told CBS 2's Tony Aiello that they are ...

The chewing of khat leaves is common in the Horn of Africa, but in eastern Ethiopia it is both big business and a big worry for the authorities. Khat is a major agricultural crop. Yet many some say it ...

High above Minneapolis, the prefab-concrete Cedar-Riverside towers are crowded with newly arrived East African immigrants. Yemenis and Somalis spend weekends in the subsidized high-rises chewing over ...

Khat is the leaves and shoots of the shrub Catha edulis, which are chewed to obtain a mild stimulant effect (AFP/Getty) (AFP/Getty Images) From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The ...

It is a rainy Sunday afternoon in Peckham, south-east London, and if recent sensational reports are to be believed, I am shortly going to risk my life. Behind a blue door on an otherwise unremarkable ...