A Marduuf for My Kingdom

[AbdiWahab252]

Nothing gets u up and more alert than a fresh bunch of Mount Meru Giza.

Prays for the legalization of the Blessed Leaves in the USA.

[COSTA]

Move back to Europe or you will live with Dubaab

[zulaika]

abdi,

did u use the words "pray" and "blessed" in the same sentence with khat?? laa xawla

[AbdiWahab252]

Zulaika,

I remember visiting the Mount Meru where the blessed trees are grown. The sweet smell of the leaves was exhilirating.

Yes, the twig is blessed and I sure could you some to get me through the day (mental note never to go out with 21yr olds on a weeknight).

[Enemy_Of_Mad_Mullah]

[quote="zulaika"]abdi,

did u use the words "pray" and "blessed" in the same sentence with khat?? laa xawla [/quote]


so

dont disrespect the tree of LIFE

caleemo akhtar ah iyo nolol gaar ah qaadow adiga leh

nefisga ruuxa iyo maskax fiyoowdeyba qaadow adiga leh

fikrad cajiib ah iyo gabayo kala jaad jaad ah qaadow adiga leh

cadho kulul iyo nacdal reerka ku dhacdaba qaadow adiga leh

[AbdiWahab252]

EOMM:

I am returning to Kenya next summer.

Let me know if you want to come along. I will take you to the slopes of Mount Meru where the Holy Tree grows all over the landscape as far as the eye can see.

The sweet smell of the plantations of the Holy trees carried by the wind are exhilirating.

You can also go on a tour of a farm and learn everything about God's gift to mankind: how it is grown, varities, how to judget the quality.


Btw,

A Yemeni man grew some khat in the US. He was a pioneer.

Khat comes to America, prompting crackdown

Copyright © 2000, The Associated Press State & Local Wire, April 23, 2000

By Tom Hayes

In a tiny Brooklyn cafe with faded tourist posters of Yemen in the window, the mood at a table of Arab men darkens when the topic turns to khat.

"In my country, khat is easy," says Abdul Rahman. "Everybody, the president, they have it. ... I don't understand this."

Rahman, a 26-year-old Yemeni, was working at the cafe on the Islamic

holiday Eid al-Adha when narcotics officers walked in and busted three men

in the basement on drug charges.

Raids at the Blue Province Restaurant and two other Yemeni businesses last month had nothing to do with cocaine, designer drugs or even marijuana. Instead, the target was people selling khat, a stimulating leaf that many in the Middle East chew like tobacco and consider no more sinister than a double espresso.

Rahman and other Arab immigrants in Brooklyn say that before the raids they had no idea khat (pronounced cot) was illegal here. "The community has been consuming khat for a long time - this is not a secret," said Ali Sharaf, a member of a Yemen-American student group. "I'm surprised that now it's a big thing."

Back home in Yemen, khat chewing is commonplace, often a daily practice. It's the same in Djibouti and Somalia on the Horn of Africa.

U.S. authorities got interested when khat appeared more and more in Arab communities around the country.

"This is a serious problem," said New York City police spokesman Sgt. Andrew McInnis. "We responded to complaints about the negative impact on

the community."

Authorities allege the suspects arrested in the raids were breaking laws banning possession of cathonine - the key ingredient in freshly cut khat leaves, which look like basil. The federal government lists cathonine as a "Schedule I" controlled substance, the same category as heroin, LSD and ecstasy.

Khat chewers say it gives them energy and a feeling of euphoria. But the Drug Enforcement Administration maintains that khat is psychologically addictive.

Compulsive use, the DEA says, "may result in manic behavior with grandiose delusions or in a paranoid type of illness, sometimes accompanied by hallucinations."

Khat is believed to have been traded as a commodity even before coffee. Its use originated in Ethiopia, then spread through east Africa and parts of the Middle East. Muslim legend has it that its stimulant effect enabled all-night prayer vigils.

But now some people in Yemen are worried that too many government workers were wasting away their afternoons - and their income - chewing khat. President Ali Abdullah Saleh has tried to set an example by announcing he will only chew on weekends.

The United Nations estimates that in Djibouti, 98 percent of the men use khat to numb the pain of poverty. Somalian warlords dole it out to soldiers as part of daily rations.

In the United States, the market for khat appears to be limited and nonviolent. Customs officers confiscated 49,000 pounds of khat in fiscal 1999, compared to 1.2 million pounds of marijuana.

Most of the khat was seized at the New York area airports. Agents who caught a whiff of the plant's pungent smell during random inspections last year found a total of 30,500 pounds stashed in luggage, mainly in amounts so small the couriers weren't prosecuted.

Seizures also have been made at Denver's airport, on the New Jersey Turnpike and in Minneapolis. In San Jose, Calif., a Yemeni man was arrested

in 1998 for growing 1,000 plants in what was described as the first khat plantation in the United States.

Still, khat "is probably not one of our priorities," said New York DEA spokesman Stan Skowronski.

Police launched the Brooklyn investigation about six months ago after learning that street dealers were peddling khat around Arab storefronts. The going price was $40 for a day's supply.

On March 15, an undercover officer bought khat at a Yemeni restaurant. The next day, the Islamic holiday, officers found customers lined up for refrigerated khat being cut up and sold at the Blue Province Restaurant, authorities said.

By the time officers wrapped up the investigation, they had seized about 240 pounds of khat and arrested eight people. The defendants face up to seven years in prison if convicted of felony drug charges.

James Palumbo, attorney for one suspect, said his client was shocked to find himself the target of a drug bust. The community, he added, doesn't need to see anyone go to jail to be scared straight.

"These are law-abiding people," he said. "The cops have made their point."

One young Yemenite, who identified himself only as Jamil, admitted buying khat at the Blue Province only an hour before the police raid.

"When you're around (khat), you've got to have it," Jamil said. "But it's bad for us. We need to stop it."

Rare African drug

[DawladSade]

who the hell eats khat but over 30 year old losers, get fockin lives

[AbdiWahab252]

[quote="DawladSade"]who the hell eats khat but over 30 year old losers, get fockin lives[/quote]


Don't be harsh on your Father

[COSTA]

My friend sells it walaahi i can get it for free but i stopped to chew its dirty Carlsberg is better

[zulaika]

mullah,

adigu imika waxaad sarantahey khaatka laantiisi ugu sareeysey...u high bastard, i'll talk with u when come down from your high.

abdi,

me think you're flying high this morning....war khat u nacnacleey all u want but refrain from callin' it blessed...dambi ha isku galin huuno.

[DawladSade]

[quote="AbdiWahab252"][quote="DawladSade"]who the hell eats khat but over 30 year old losers, get fockin lives[/quote]


Don't be harsh on your Father [/quote]

Aabahy waa nin sharaf iyo karaamo leh sxb. He has never tasted Khat in his life and he has never had reason to you. When you are actually productive, what are the chances of finding free time to be a loser?

[HELWAA]

The reason we dont have a country is because of the JAAD..

Just look to somalia
- no horamar
- no mustaqbal

Just look to all the coupels who divorce because of jaad

It's sad indeed i wish they forbidd the dam shit in somalia

[AbdiWahab252]

[quote="DawladSade"][quote="AbdiWahab252"][quote="DawladSade"]who the hell eats khat but over 30 year old losers, get fockin lives[/quote]


Don't be harsh on your Father [/quote]

Aabahy
waa nin sharaf iyo karaamo leh sxb. He has never tasted Khat in his
life and he has never had reason to you. When you are actually
productive, what are the chances of finding free time to be a loser?[/quote]


An ILKOYAR who never had jad before So you must have been goat herders before the war ? Because every Marexan man in Xamar chewed

[COSTA]

Helwa har du inte sett Uppdrag granskning igår hela programmen var om KAT

du kan titta här

http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=2 ... pos=rubrik

[DawladSade]

What do you know about Xamar or Marehan when you were running around half naked with your Borana reer Abti in the NFD?