Khat: What impact will UK herb stimulant ban have?

[STARKAST]

Home Secretary Theresa May is banning a herb called khat, a stimulant chewed by large sections of the Somali community and grown mainly in East Africa.

The UK is the biggest western importer of the plant, which in the next few months will become classified as a class C drug.

Alex Miller, editor-in-chief of Vice UK, looked into the use of the substance and the potential impact of the ban in a report on BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25854577

I didn't know Somalis have such good logistics.
Khat shouldn't be banned. Criminalizing stimulants/drugs is not the way.

[BigBreak]

its right khat is banned since it actually means lazy bums actually finding something productive to do not to mention saving families from marital failure and financial waste

[Malachite]

It's yet another decision taken on the basis of moral panic and media outrage rather than scientific studies of the drug's effects on both the individual user and society as a whole

[STARKAST]

I concur your statements, if the government can't profit of it they want to ban it. Khat is gonna become a profitable business now, a new class of Somalis will be created.