Narcotic Khat Raises Cultural Rift in US

It would be interesting to compare the impact of alcohol drinking to that of chewing khat in our community. According to a 2004 report: “Binge drinking and harmful drinking, including both medium to high levels of regular alcohol consumption, account for a substantial number of deaths each year in the United States. Prevention of this underlying cause of mortality must be a public health priority, according to researchers at the University of Washington (UW) who conducted the study. "Mortality Attributable to Harmful Drinking in the United States, 2000" was published in the July issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol. Although alcohol has been associated with death from a variety of causes, there had been no recent studies on the numbers of deaths in the U.S. attributable to harmful alcohol use. The investigators estimated the prevalence of alcohol use from the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service's National Household Survey on Drug Abuse. An estimated 63,718 deaths were attributable to harmful drinking in the U.S. in 2000. Of these deaths, 45,988 were to males (4 percent of all deaths among males) and 17,730 were to females (1.5 percent of all deaths among females).” Reply

Wow, something else to spend millions (or billions) of dollars trying to regulate. 2buyitnow.com Reply

The quote: "It is the same drug used by kids who go out and shoot people in Africa, Iraq, and Afghanistan"... YES, and the word "hashish" comes from the same root as the word "assassin"... NutsInNY.com Reply

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