Somalia's (Only) Popular Drug
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- Chewing Khat at this point is tradition. It is so much a part of East African culture that you can even use it to bribe the police.
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Qat (How I'm told it on its English equivalent spelling) - It's also popular in Yemen. Even saw young boys chewing it. Though I believe it's popularity is mostly centered in Aden. On a side note, on observation, it seemed Yemeni have a fear of Somalis.
No neighbor fears Somalis. Stop spreading fake news!
We have many Yemeni refugees here in Somalia and Ethiopian economic migrants. They are welcome here and we are welcome in thier respective countries and Khat is our common pastime.
@@MohamedHassan-ni6un I'm sorry you didn't experience what I saw. No matter any language barrier, distress is clear in anyone's face. But it's my fault for not making it clear enough that not everyone had that reaction.
@@MohamedHassan-ni6un Also, I would not take someones personal experience as "News".
I'll stick to my organic methamphetamine.
😂
It is considered organic chemistry right
@@thebanditgaming4884 LMAO!
My favorite! Jk lol
hahahaha
People will always find a way to get high
Animals too! (Other animals than mankind)
@Insert Name Here Marijuna too its huge in the subcontinent
@@spinneborstel Dolphins :)
I mean. Apparently there are people who Inhale fermented excrements. Doesn't really get lower
Ladders or elevators in my case, as I'm a pure child of jesus. 🙏
We aren't that different in the west. Alcohol, coffee, and tobacco are all drugs we've normalized as well
Alongside tons of pharmaceuticals that are almost identical to there counter parts that are sold on the street illegally.
except from the fact that you'll be murdered if you go against the teachings of a non-existent sky fairy
But we are more intelligent
Also, khat is sold in many western countries as a vegetable. Mostly catering to the Somali communities but still.
METH.
my mom: "why won't you just eat the broccoli!!"
me: it rots my teeth, hurts my brain, harms my society, and defies Islam
Hahahaha
eating healthy and being healthy is highly liked and endorsed in Islam, a strong believer is better than weak one.
Broccoli is good for you kid vegetables are lit
I use to smoke my mums broccoli hehe
LOOOOOOOL you made my day @jsteele07189
this was found footage... The host and camera man are still chewing khat .....somewhere in Somalia
🤣🤣🤣🤣
What
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Been captured by the pirates but the pirates r giving them khat
This looks like Somaliland.
"Taking a pill removes the positives of the ritual."
There you pinned it. It's a lifestyle. What else will an African farmer do with the rest of his day? It's a way to spend time.
Quite sad
i do believe its for people with boring and tedious lifestyles, here in saudi arabia it is strictly illegal except in close border with yemen, i was offered some by a security guard at my hotel in jazan ... but i dont believe anyone with a high social status or wealth would do it
@@markusdead96 no more sad than chewing tabaco
Meanwhile we got xanheads
@@fozzilla123 weird af. Go crawl back in your hole
My Ethiopian friend at university in Coventry introduced me to khat (he pronounced its chat). It was fantastic for studying, it really helped with concentration and the ability to memorise everything you are reading. Shame it was made illegal in the UK when cathinones were all banned
It’s an keto amphetamine and it’s terribly for your heart and is extremely addictive
@@dmtwizardno is not additive, I chewed khat for yrs when I stopped the next day I was eating and sleeping better than before the only side effect when u quit is nightmares for couple of nights
CV1 loved the library
When he found he couldn't get khat for a few hours he threw himself from a moving vehicle. Yep sounds like typical khat withdrawal. #IKhatdoit
@Heyzyen so what flavor of racist are you ironic or non-ironic
@Heyzyen WOOOOOOOOW take a step back you filthy piece of racism. If you want a reason on why "they are behind us", why don't you blame Imperialism and Capitalism? Blame Europa and the USA you Asshole.
@Heyzyen you sound stupid with a comment like that, have you ever been to Africa?
@Heyzyen okay haha I'm in the uk on lockdown but I'll do my daily exercise and have a cheeky chew.
Khat has a very mild come down like coffee and vivid weird dreams but it's no where near the opiods, cocaine, heroine,meth or penzodiazepines when it comes to physical withdrawals, it's addiction is purely mental unlike the above drugs. I know people who chewed khat for years everyday and stopped it easily without a slight headache.
It's just as popular in Yemen, you literally can find kids using it.
i mean what else you'd do in yemen
@David MacD that is the real danger of khat
KeZaRo0 well, it significantly decreases appetite, so it all works out in the end, i guess lol
@@BothHands1 Not really. Food is still food, and you'll starve whether you feel it or not.
A Single Shade Of Grey lol i know, i was just trying to make a morbid joke. Though luckily there aren't any major famines in the area at the moment, or it would definitely be in too poor taste for me to make.
have a break,
have a kit-khat
In Japan they say Kitto-Khatto! ✌️🤪
Hajahahajahahhahahaahahh!!!!
Perfect
Finally a good one
Pretty good 👏
“I am the captain now”
Akata
"Look at me"
"I am the khaptain now"
fixed it for you
Lmaooooo
dude why :’))))
I have a mate here in Australia who had to remove large Katha edulis (Khat) trees from his propperty that he'd had for years and years because he kept getting raided at night by Kenyans who had found them and kept trespassing to steal from the trees. Some also got planted on a traffic divider decades ago and as soon as the local NE African immigrant population found them they swarmed there and stripped them bare. Both true stories.
Where is this, for science of course?
Your friend should have considered some symbiotic relationship.
7:01 - That's why I smoked tobacco - never got anything from the nicotine that I could tell, but the ritual - shaking a smoke out of the pack, or rolling a hand-made, lighting up, smoking with friends - was the real draw. Don't really miss the tobacco - but I miss the ritual...GREAT observation
And we smoke for the *CO* Works on bees 🐝 🐝🐝 🐝🐝 🐝; works on people.
while i did smoke for the nicotine, i cant lie that the ritual is a really big part of it. e-cigs really arent just the same.
@Shiranami Rei-- No, e-cigs are not the same, and they aren't meant to be. E-cigs are meant to get people off cigarettes, which ARE more harmful, no matter what the anti-vaping ads all keep screaming. They are NOT meant for children, no matter what flavors they might be. E-cigs are all about _adult harm reduction._ They aren't perfect, nothing is, but I was able to quit a three pack-a-day habit by switching to vaping, and not only is it 1/20th of the price of smoking, I've gone from 1.8 mgs. per ml., down to .03 mgs. per ml. and will step down to .01 in August. By Christmas I should be nicotine-free, but I will still vape because I've smoked, and now vaped, my entire adult life and I know not having a vape pen handy will end up putting me back on cigarettes when some crisis or another befalls me. The only husband I'll ever have died nine days after I quit smoking and started vaping. He may have gone out the way he wanted to, on his Harley, but it was still a shock to the whole family. Without vaping, I'm positive that I would have smoked after he died.
@@calichef1962 no for sure, my e-cig has definitely helped me quit, which im sure you can do so as well. im sorry for your loss, thank you for your comment and have a great weekend.
I smoke tobacco for the same reason. It’s lovely to go out on my porch, pack a pipe or light up a cigar and just sit there with nothing but me and my flame. I never feel the nicotine.
Caffeine is the world's most popular psychoactive stimulant.
Cool story bro...
He has a story on that too as far as I remember.
czcams.com/video/OTVE5iPMKLg/video.html
Have you tried the internet?
No it's sugar
What he didn't tell you is:
1 those specific Khat they were chewing are the lowest grade and very cheap, the good ones are way more expensive and dark purple colored at the tip.
2 of course westerners have tried harder drugs like liquor, cocaine, weed, ect. So if you've tried those before then Kath is nothing as your body already tolerated much stronger stimulants. But if you NEVER tried any other drug in your life. The feeling you get (of course if you don't abuse it daily) is memorable. Personally, I won't forget the feeling I had when I've tried for the 1st time.
what was the feeling Like?
Tyler U skating it was like something he won’t forget you know?
Alex Fino bitch u sound lame af
@Mario Salinas Idk how to grow it but you could probably find some seeds on the internet, I imagine it cant be much harder to grow than say Cannabis.
Are you suggesting [all] westerners have a higher drug tolerance?
If its a stimulant that makes you jittery then why does everyone look so laid back?
They’re probably not getting high anymore they’re just getting their fix
It's like a cigarette; wakes you up but also relaxing.
T it ain’t that hot in Somalia actually the weather is dope , sunny but cold winds during summers and cold during winters
lol maybe it’s like having a secret party inside ...calm on the surface but on the inside 🎉 🎈 🎊 🍾
It does not make you jittery..I have been chewing it for a decade..it makes your body relax, your brain excessively active in thinking, telling a story small stuff..like say, one story, you will take an hour or two to tell and the other chewer will enjoy it every second of it...nothing is boring, everything is cooooooool, music is heaven
"Prohibition works, but only if nobody wants whats being prohibited" word.
People where addicted to stronger drugs back in the 80s in Somalia but a strict prohibition stopped it. In this case I feel like that statement is false.
Don't know the history of Somalia to say anything to that. Can you link about it?
A. J. The thing is, the type of prohibition is different. In most places it's just the law whereas in Somalia, it's their religion. The law makers tell people they'll go to hell for doing drugs. It's very different.
"QAT" is also an easy way to get rid of a "Q' in Scrabble without having a "U".
"So, ju got de money?" 😁😁😁
Do you kno de wey?
Thanks for the scrabble tip.
Haha! Been using that trick for almost two decades
Non english words arent allowed
This is a great documentary! Interesting, covers all the really important points, brilliantly articulated! Thank you.
There is a whole group of research chemicals based off this drug called cathinones. Mostly all bath salts we're cathinones
Synthetic cannabis is also molecularly similar to cannabis and binds to the same receptors in the brain. That doesn't mean that the neurotoxicity and/or euphoric effects are the same.
I used to snort a lot of methcathinone as a substitute for coke since it was much cheaper. It's super addictive and my girlfriend at the time got hooked on it as well. It's not something you wanna mess around with honestly. It's very similar to actual methamphetamine.
Orphic Oracle is it as good as coke tho?
@@seider780 there's a handful of cathinones that's just as good as coke
A country like somalia has a budget of 800million yet it's people spend 2billion every year on khat alone.
It isnt taxed
Somalia spends more than a million USD per day on a plant that they don't grow there own now that's a sight to behold.
1:48 He says Harar, which is located in East Ethiopia
Corporate slave but how we gonna get high?
@Corporate slave we can just stop this by using simple powers like putting high taxes on drugs so no one would import them once taxed high.
Khat: The LaCroix of Illicit Stimulants.
What? Could you explain please?
@Bubba Ho-Tep lol
@Bubba Ho-TepMirage
@Bubba Ho-Tep Spirit
@Bubba Ho-Tep Shadow
I chew Khat daily, helps me focus while designing and coding... more like a mild form of Adderall.
So it's no good after it's been dried though? Any way to preserve and ship it I wonder?
Can it be smoked?
@Chris Ward shoot up another speed ball bud
How did you get it out of the region ?
@@samirdayalsingh7721 I live in East Africa
In Nairobi Kenya 🇰🇪 we chew khat every single day
Aluta
@@khalidabdi3952 akhi what's the matter?
@Agent Orange Hamite?
Jabaration is a must 😂
Zinashika daily bana 😂😂
Donn 1k ?? Do you Swallow the leaf 🍃??
Legit some of this B Roll Footage Looks Like Video Game Benchmark Scenes
i can’t unsee it now
it really does, especially with the seemingly oversaturated colours of the red soil and deep green plants
Arma 3 much?
RTX on FPS off
Looks like they need an upgrade. FPS is terrible.
I've tried this before. It really is not fun you feel wired but in a really unfocused way. The chewed up leaves got stuck behind my teeth and i felt slightly like i was going mad towards the end.
I'd say its like drinking too much coffee and then doing a line of low quality coke. Except that it lasts for an entire day. Wouldn't recommend.
ugh....sounds awful I think that I will stick to my morning kratom.
I'd stick to herb
I'll stick to my 4 gram a day cocaine habit
@@omfug7148 right? For me it's a bedtime ritual but yeah, kratom (or Sludge as I like to call it) is the best mild drug.
sounds exactly like cocaine but more messy
6:13 even the goat is addicted to kat
I’m gonna have to add something. The active chemicals in khat that cause the stimulating effect are cathinone and cathine. If fresh khat is placed in a deep freeze (like below -10°C) it prevents the decomposition of cathinone which can be extracted from the khat with an acid/base extraction which is relatively simple. After that, the cathinone can be chemically altered to many different other drugs of the substituted cathinone class. Methcathinone is comparatively easier to produce than street methamphetamine which requires many more steps to turn pseudoephedrine into methamph. Not to mention anecdotally people say it’s more pleasant with less comedown and it only lasts 4-6hrs instead of methamph possibly lasting 18hrs which would really put a strain on you.
Is this really Todd Howard? The fuck
Idubbz I’m fake don’t know who Todd Howard is but at least he knows his shit
It's too much work if you ask me. People chew for 12+ hours straight so it might as well be methamphetamine
Thanks for the business idea loool
Do you happen to go by as the name hiesenberg?
He keeps mentioning Somaliland and Somalia but is showing clips of Harar Ethiopia.
facts lol
He’s another CZcams clown begging views with his “catchy” captions 🧐
@@mustafaa4614 de waa runtii
@@KS-lv4br They are a sovereign entity with their own military, currency, and have control over their borders and ports. U can recognize deez nutz
@@mustafaa4614 its still not a damn country bro
I don't think i'd want to try that,
would be too worried about getting... khat
xD
delete this
Pls
🥁 duh duh chehhh
L
😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍 ok it was orginal
for me it calms my mind,helps me do chores.. upside :helped me pass my engineering paper (structural analysis).
No one asked
Jk. Good job
@@myes344 go do something productive weird ass fool 🤣
Which country are you from ?
Oh wow, I'm glad I watched the credits. Evan Hadfield, I didn't recognise you. We met almost ten years ago on the internet. I hope that you are well and it's cool that you are doing something and staying busy. Looks like a good use of time.
Well, if I'm watching every new video of yours that comes out, I might as well ring the bell. You definitely hooked me Evan. Addictive.
Sorry! I wasnt paying attention to where I was casting... I'll go fish over here...😮
@@FuqUCZcams lol that was a great one, I actually giggled.
It started two weeks ago with coffee. Now, it's khat.
At this rate, I expect to see Evan snorting lines of cocaine between line readings in another two weeks.
Next title: Where White Powder Runs Like Water.
And, disappointingly, it's about a grain mill.
@@RareEarthSeries give them a little bit of a break, the reporters get sent to the middle of nowhere, Columbia to cover Pablo's old hangout. I've also heard that hippos are the most dangerous animal in the world, killing more people than lions or alligators, etc. I think mainly from bad encounters with boats full of people. And a little sympathy for those of us who are suckers for hippo stories!
lol he's going to a mexican cartel meth lab to taste the product just out of the oven.
@@jasonbelstone3427 my nostrils
You are one the god ones! Thank you very much for this no-bullshit video! No angle, just as much facts as possible. Very nice.
Reminder that caffeine is a drug that many people in the west use and are addicted to. Nicotine isn't as popular but it used to be more common, as well. Energy drinks like Monster and Red Bull are also common, so it's not really *too* culturally dissimilar or "weird" for the Somalis to have khat be so popular.
Yeah I use to do cocaine and quit that easy…… cuz I was broke and not about to suck a dick……… but cigarettes and caffeine, I still love
2:00 "Like cows in a field, most of them are happy to spend 4-6 hours everyday chewing their cud" Hahaha Samething came to my mind, when I saw them chewing leaves.
Cud my friend en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cud
so its like people here and televison
@@bladeofveng Thanks yo. Damn autocorrect didn't even notice it.
So does that mean these qat-chewers are *halal* to butcher and eat by islam?
They could all be using that time to better themselves and their country,.. but fuck it,.. buy a bag and chew for a few hours.
That was cool to watch. I liked how informative it was and how you didnt insult anyone for doing it. Provided details and pretty much left it up to us to decide :) great video man
It's amped up coffee. People there would be hooked on Starbucks if they had it...
Money Mark LoL Somali Starbucks: Sip it, don’t chew it.
Ahh just stfu
They'd get hooked on spending more on on food items that say gluten free bc it makes them feel like they're eating like celebrities too.
People there would be hooked on food too
Guess it’s all relative
Don't give them the idea. Remember what happened with Coca-Cola.
It's absolutely massive in Yemen, even more so than Somalya. It's grown on a much smaller scale in Israel because of a large Yemenite sector.
Stronger than coffee but not as strong as cocaine? I'm in
The active ingredient is related to bath salts. Are you still up for it?
Amphetamines
@@lred1383 so what it's natural
@Wischmopps Natural:
Earthquakes, tornadoes, tidal waves, plagues of locusts, uranium, malaria, muesli
Man-made:
Hospitals, all drug treatments in those hospitals, radio communications, the internet, oh fuck it, I can't be bothered.
Yeah, idiot, basically.
'Natural' - the best marketing job ever by fucking health food shops.
@Wischmopps venemous snakes
Lol I enjoy smoking some pot but I sure as shit wouldn't jump out of a feckin moving vehicle because I couldn't for a few hours haha
Exactly why pot should be legal im in upstate ny the government is still retarted here
Depends on how fast were talking.
It was most likely just really slow moving like in heavy traffic or some shit
"Few hours"? What about a few days??
Pot is 100% legal all over the country here. 🇨🇦
But even as heavy of a user as I am, even when offered while on vacation in Cuba, I say no.
Didn't feel like seeing what a cuban jail looked like 😂😂😂
Speaking of a ritual: when I used to smoke weed on an almost daily basis, I mostly smoked joints that we shared with multiple people. At some point we tried smoking bong, but I went back to smoking joints pretty quickly. Despite the fact that I prefer the slow and steady high from joints over the quick and heavy high of a bong, I mostly disliked that bong smoking kind of takes away the ritual of rolling and sharing a joint. And now that I quit smoking weed, I really just miss the ritual for the most part. The Search for a good spot with a nice view, the work and aesthetic that goes into rolling a good joint and the way you share it. It really is a lifestyle
You should document this in Djibouti as well. Khat is the central heart of the country. Citizens often joke that if Khat was gone from Djibouti the people will revolt against the government is 2 days.
They were all khat in the act of using it.
no
bruh
Come on...
Mark lol good one
Lame
Ive been wanting to try khat for 10'years, i need to link with them somali boiz
I can ship fresh from Kenya hit my IG same name as CZcams
😂😂
Lol you'll be disappointed
This is awesome documentary. 👌 loved it
You go to yemen, bring a shit ton of khat. Its basically a currency there
"In practice, religion is predicated on the back of human behaviour, not vice versa."
Hmm, I have to remember that line. Food for thought.
Which of course makes Rare Earth worth watching, again.
Man created God (the Gods), not the other way around.
Yeah, cause chastity and forgiveness and generosity are so abundant in human behavior
Are we not going to address the elephant in the room. Sharia law is the antithesis to this statement. Coincidentally it is the reason why coffee and khat is all they can get their hands on. More accurately, I think, "Ideally, religion is predicated on the back of human behavior, not the other way around." Unfortunately this is not the case in countries controlled by tyrannical theocracies.
@Cant_Touch_This its still the same
They are prohibited because they are what lies within the darkest desires of human
Which leads to bad behaviour and addiction
So yeah religion is built upon human behavior
And many society chanllenge some values in their religion
Because they do it as a whole and its acceptable
It’s also part of Yemeni’s day to day activities. They consume it rather copiously!
Yeah but it's getting better in Yemen not much people chew it that much in 2021 Yemen, except for soldiers.
Thank you so much for this video. It inspired me to write an entire case study on khat and its relation to Islam for my religious studies class.
how did ur case study go lol i know its been a year
@@iminuku3743 it went pretty well. Got me a good grade so I can’t complain.
Khat doesn't just contain chemicals that are like amphetamines, it contains chemicals that almost are amphetamines. One in particular is about as close to being amphetamine as something can be without actually being amphetamine. Some of them are equally potent or more potent stimulants to some amphetamines. Stimulation and euphoria aren't synonymous though, and amphetamine is probably more euphoric than the chemical I'm referring to (cathinone.)
The chemical responsible for most of the stimulant effects is probably the cathinone Khat produces. Cathinone is the base molecule for what most people know as "bath salts," or more accurately "substituted cathinones." Cathinone can be thought of as an amphetamine molecule with one extra oxygen molecule double-bonded to it (at the β position of the carbon chain, for the chemists,) of the amphetamine backbone molecule.
This oxygen molecule is called a keto functional group ("KEE-toe") and this reason, cathinone can also be called "beta-keto amphetamine." (Google "amphetamine vs cathinone" and look at the image results for a clear understanding of how similar their structures are.)
Khat also contains cathine (not to be confused with caffeine,) which is also called Dextro-norpseudoephedrine, which is closely related to pseudoephedrine, i.e. "Sudafed", which itself is closely related, structurally, to ephedrine and amphetamine but neither cathine or pseudoephedrine have the dopaminergic euphoric-stimulant or CNS simulating effects of amphetamine.
Khat also contains norephedrine, aka noradrenaline.
Cathinone is only found in decent amounts in the shoots and leaves of young khat plants, as during the maturation process the plant converts the Cathinone into the less desirable cathine (D-norpseudoephedrine.)
The plant contains numerous other alkaloids, terpenoids, flavonoids, sterols, glycosides, tannins, amino acids, vitamins and minerals, but these are probably the most interesting, as far as I know, in terms of the plant's psychoactive properties.
It's an absolutely fascinating branch of chemistry.
Nick I had to chew on some khat to read your whole explanation of what khat really is.
😳
Well put together, am actually chewing right now in Kenya
@@williamsherman2374 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
hey nick can I talk to you
this channel is real af and really informative. thanks for the video!
great insight i truly enjoyed what you showed ,and it seemed you were welcomed Bravo 🇺🇸
20 jears ago I planted 2 small Khat shrubs on Tenerife. They still grow there an even flower.
2:28, you mean how hasn't it KHAT on elsewhere? *bu dum tss*
czcams.com/video/6zXDo4dL7SU/video.html
Very underrated
Ha
*Seinfeld theme plays*
Isn't it found in Yemen??
In Kenya they chew it with gum, it's actually really good. And it's called miraa
i would of quit if it wasn't for chewing gum lol
@jibril yare tv gathi bro
Wtf you mean with gum iv only chewed it alone if I'm only drinking water I'll have a little sugar in a bag id lick some every now and then
Kushikisha lem greens😂😂😂
Mogoka*
Spent a year in Djibouti. Every other day a cargo plane would fly in from Ethiopia with huge bags of Khat. Then the taxis would can out like race cars all over the city delivering it. Within 90 minutes everyone in town is chewing away. But here’s the thing. Djibouti is like hell on Earth with regular daytime highs from April through September above 120 degrees F(50 C). The only way to live there and not go heat crazy is to be high all the time.
REDDING, NO. CALIFORNIA,115, JULY~OCT, 2 DEGREES, COOLER, THEN PALM SPRINGS~ WTF ? 600 MILES, SOUTH, ~ SO, REALLY RXTREME, REG. TEMPS, WAS , MAYBE,~105 + NEVER,115+
@@darrylnelson2581 Not sure why all caps but... It is the only place in 32 years in the Army that they told me do not try to acclimate to this place. 60% humidity(right on the gulf of Tadjora) and yes 120 degrees plus all summer long. Like I said, hell on Earth.
NOT A FED OFFENSE, JUST WORKED MANY YEARS, PLANS, SPECS.CONSTR, AND MY HANDS, EYES,, PAINFUL,TO BE A LADYFINGER TYPIST~ NOT V OICE DICTATED~@@thecellulontriptometer4166
Wow! Wonderful video. Thank u sir. I love how to mentioned u r not expert on Islamic teachings yet quoted facts from the Koran. Very humble person!
Chewed it all day traveling Yemen back in 98.its hardly a drug in comparison to the white stuff ,bit more like a medium grade stimulant.
Most men have a bag of it with them.
WoOOaHHHhh don't forget the . to make sure everyone knows you're hard AND serious
ARintheseatSESH you must be fun at parties
Yeah my friend chewed it, said it was more like a few cups of strong coffee
ARintheseatSESH Are you really giving him shit for punctuating his sentence..?
ARintheseatSESH virgin
This host has the whole package great speaking voice capturing personality great story telling just incredible I will watch more of you sir amazing job. 😃
Ur right
I love how you said that .. you chemically alter your perspective find out to the molecular level
Appreciate the "straight up" approach
Aye where my Somalis at 😂? 🇸🇴🇸🇴
Ask Google
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Uzi TV lived in Cairo for 7 years ❤️😂
@@ImJotaroKujo I'm not Egyptian lol I'm yemeni
MAAN that flag doesn’t represent every Somali
Imagine if the video was about juuls and everyone was just a 7th grader.
IDK where y'all all but in my high school experience I don't see people vaping.
@@moth.monster 40% at least of kids juul around here, including me lol, as far as I can tell your place is the exception. If you believe the news hype at least.
@@m.streicher8286 believing the news hype lmao. apparently there was one kid who vaped on the bus at my sister's school, but by what i can tell they're just as common as cigarettes, alcohol, weed, etc. (not that common)
Goofy
@@moth.monster It's not news hype, it's how it is in high school. 40 percent or so of the school has a juul and uses it at school.
Really informative video, i liked watching it, thank you
Man each time I watch a rare earth video I get lost after 20 secs and get giddy at the end when he says this is Rare Earth.
I am suddenly reminded of the part in HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy (or one of the other books in the series) where they crash land on the planet and decide to use leaves as currency
Best random find I've found on CZcams in awhile! This channel is super underrated
Cheers for a brilliant coverage.
I never even knew that existed, great show!
My cousin was in the army, deployed to Somalia, and he told us a story about how widespread Kaht was in the country. His team was raiding a house for some reason, I don't remember what it was, and they found more Kaht in the building than foodstuff. I can't imagine what would happen if these people had ready access to more popular drugs.
you guys are way better than vice news keep up the good work!
Mad respect. You went to Somalia to make a video on Kat. Amazing. Glad you're okay.
Beers on me next time you're in Michigan. Take care.
I would have thought so too, but apparently they only travelled to eastern Ethiopia to make some big statments about how the situation in the Somalias is...
Khat (miraa) is also available in Kenya, but for my experience there alcohol is more common^^. Well and for the very poor it's glue.
"Most popular drug on Earth" that is damn bold statement sir
I was chewing and saw this video😱
The feeling u get from khat is called “markan”🤒I’m markan asf 😁✌🏼🇸🇴
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You all seem high af
mirqaan wacan. 😂
In South East Asia. Theres this plant called Ketum that is a relative of coffee tree where its leaf when boiled and drank has similar effect as weed.
Yep, it's mostly known as kratom in western civilization
In Ethiopia where this video was recorded in people there We boils down coffee leaf and drink it like tea. Also shell of coffee dry and boil it like tea. people consider it less caffeine than coffee
Good video nice work from you and ya team
Thank you Rare Earth! I had never heard of Khat before! Guess what? Now I do!👏👏👏
Bath salts... Flakka... Khat is where it comes from
@rush1er-- I can tell that you don't watch Hamilton's Pharmacopeia. "Bath salts" change the formulation constantly. No two brands, or even batches, are the same. Flaka is it's own thing, and has nothing to do with khat. I don't think you paid attention, if you even watched the video.
Thanks for placing your claps at the end and not between the words.
calichef1962 I know more about alpha-pvp and other synthetic cathinones than a person should. Up until 2016 I lived in South Florida and watched the drug with the bad rap basically replace crack on the street. I had a "friend" help another "friend" talk to a company in China and-..... I'll stop there. I think Rare Earth is great, but if this Canadian twerp is your only source on the topic, then YOU are the one not listening. You are talking to someone who WAS 9 toes deep in the game.
calichef1962 Let me ask you something...if flowk( it's called flock on the street) doesn't come from Khat, then what do you think is the base stimulant in the drug?
wow this is what I want from a documentary. Compact and concise. I don't wanna sit through 45 minute long documentaries that the TV puts on.
Thanks for the video!! :)
Great info doc beautiful camera work
Another great picture with great narration and the reason why Khat (or Miraa as we call it here in Meru Kenya (the origin)) is because it is basically banned elsewhere and the cultural barriers stand strong. It was legal in Britain until recently where we exported for decades but it is classified in USA because it contains Cathinone and cathine which are classfied there. But when you get the gist of it you will find out it's just like tea or coffee as you said it is a mild stimulant that does not drive psychotic or violent. It is also not or mildly addictive most people chew it out of habit or probably prestige.
I khat understand why people would chew bitter leaves for six hours.
Why people would drink bitter drinks ?
Can you imagine having to carry around a 40 gal trash bag full of leaves and stuffing every millimeter of your mouth so full it tears the corners of your mouth just to prevent withdrawls and it makes you itchy, paranoid and stupid. So much fun!
R Rockwell could you imagine having to wake up in the morning and take a painkiller to feel normal? imagine walking around with a vial full of painkillers all day so you don’t go into withdraw at your job.
smoking weed every hour or so for three days killed my lungs and i wouldnt do that anytime soon i cant see why you would stuff your mouth all day with this shit for the rest of your life
@@cravingjdawg I don't have sympathy for people who choose to do it recreationally. Its a different thing when someone was injured and became addicted.
However, I do think services should be provided to get people off who want to stop.
In Israel, Yemenite Jews chew it, and there is a niche of juices made with it that are briefly successful and then banned every once in a while.
Israel has western drugs, yet this one still remains popular among Yemenite Jews decades after arrival in Israel.
My wife comes from a city where this is common, so I have heard some stories about this drug, from her
I could have lived a thousand years and would never have heard of Khat if I didn't just happen to click on this catchy title. CZcams is unbelievable!
“Prohibition works but only if literally no one want to use it” lol true
except that prohibition actually encourages some people to use such drugs, just because it's forbidden fruit. So... prohibition never really works
At 4:24 that dude looked mad cause the camera was on him, LMFAO🤣😂
Shit my wife is going to see I'm a secret khat dealer
Well that was comprehensive, I subscribed as well.
Thanks for this interesting and educational report on the business of Khat and it's chewers. You never really talked about the sheer quantity of water used for it's cultivation, especially when it's new and young. I read that in the Yemen about 30% of the groundwater is used for growing Khat with about 60% of farmland reserved just for the plant.
Huge amounts of resources go into Khat, 380,000 acres or more not to mention how many plastic bags that are used once and thrown away, why can't people take their old bags back to get a reduction on the new batch of leaves?
As you said, it's blatant hypocrisy for an Islamic court in a Muslim majority country to allow it to be used by the population because this is a drug plant, like the poppy, tobacco or the coca plant it's a stimulant, so why do they allow it?
This is a better video actually giving me information than Vice could ever make.
4:41 both Saudi Arabia AND Mecca 🤣
Just for the record, Mecca is a city in Saudi Arabia y’all.
no one cares
I cared :)
@@Shixigami ha your dumb.
I care too. I dont understand how someone can make such a mistake?
@@Shixigami you care enough to leave a comment here:v
Methcathinone is the methamphetamine -like drug made from khat’s cathinone
You are really the only one COVERING SOMALILAND now but millions will follow you soon enough. T
The strain of the khat you chewed has the least potency, I wouldn't even waste my time chewing it.
The strongest strain is called MITIMITI, only grows in Uganda, please if you try this one don't consume too much in short time because it can cause you to have a heart attack.
The 2nd in strength is GIZA and only grows in Kenya.
i tried the ethiopian one felt strange when I went sleep.
@@dawn-blade first world white people will do anything for drugs smh... Oh wait ... Literally all humans will do anything for drugs
@@Ori_fr oh you should see how crazy they go for coke lmao men even sell ass for it 😂
@@dawn-blade Guess you'd need more than two brain cells to realize drugs are used all over the world.
@@breelboxing9383 you mean I could have been getting coke all this time...dammit!
"Buzzed Aldrin." I see what you did there.
DEA classified khat as scheduled 1 controll substances.
The active chemical is called cathinone.
Very balanced and educational topic .. well done .. the way you narrated is balanced , and objective , while western countries enjoy beer , east african Society enjoy chewing Khat ..