Houthi military chief of staff Muhammad Al-Ghamari was at a khat-leaf-chewing gathering when an Israeli strike targeted him over the weekend, Hebrew media reported Wednesday. While some Hebrew ...

DJIBOUTI — In this overwhelmingly Muslim nation, alcohol is frowned upon and hard drugs are exceedingly rare. But one stimulant dominates the lives of Djibouti's half-million citizens: khat, a green ...

"The amounts of cathinone and cathine are very high in muguka because you are chewing the leaves, where the potency resides," John Mututho, the former chief of the anti-drug abuse agency, told a local ...

Muguka contains the chemicals cathinone and cathine, both of which are considered to be primary active narcotics. On average, in a session, an individual may consume upwards of 100 to 300 grams of the ...

Khat (Catha edulis Forsk.) is a flowering perennial shrub cultivated for its neurostimulant properties resulting mainly from the occurrence of (S)-cathinone in young leaves. The biosynthesis of ...

The Wilkesboro Police Department arrested two men on charges of selling illegal controlled substances after search warrants were executed recently at 421 Z’s Tobacco and Vape at 1022 River Street ...