haha... Kazoze

Miraa.

so is Mira and khat the same thing ?

@@chamowmeuh yes

Kaveve kazoze 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🔥🔥

I was thinking this too 😆. If a friend told me that we were going to visit the khat house, I'd assume we were going to the Cat cafe and that my friend must have forgot the name so called it the cat house 😆😆 Your comment is underrated!

Lol

​@@joannaedssay5988cat house means brothel

Lol 😂

@@joannaedssay5988bro. A cat house is a brothel.

KAVEVE KAZOZE MZEE

Word..

story za jaba

Kazoze😹😹🥲

Bana niko jaba saa hii😅😅

Different drugs for different classes of people 🌚🌝 💉 💎 🌱

@@mishaa7263 I've been following the Fentanyl problem in the US and it's bad. However it's not on the same scale as Yemen. When your entire farming industry turns from fruit and coffee to khat, then you know you have a nationwide problem.

Did Khat make them act Drunk? Or were they nodding out? How was it like dealing with khat addicts?

@@sayedalazam4228 neither of those really. I remember lots of grinning by shopkeepers, but in the streets on the beds they were all pretty chill.

Sounds like they need regulation, not a ban. Prohibit consumption on the job, instate a minimum age for sale and consumption, issue licenses for the growing of it so only a certain percent of the country's arable land can be used for it.

I’m not 100% sure what you are trying to convey here but I’m going to venture a guess that you are agreeing with the idea that khat is a particularly harmful drug or at least is causing a lot of issues in Ethiopia. If that’s the case, I would point out that most of the unsavory things you explain here are a result of poverty, a lack of economic opportunities, poor supply chain infrastructure and a lack of government regulations/protections. Khat just happens to be the main export/economic vehicle in the area. Also the likely reason for people being wide awake in the middle of the night in the town that’s a hub is because most of the khat supply chain operates at night. As Simon mentioned, it’s a race against time to get the khat to its final destination once it’s picked. So it’s likely picked/harvested (not sure what the correct term would be lol) during the day then sold wholesale to suppliers and transported that night to get it to customers the next morning. I think this could be improved by better infrastructure but unfortunately that’s the least of Ethiopia’s problems at the moment.

​@@ayantuinthenow I'm not sure what you're trying to convey.

​@@eoinokeeffe7014thank you

Completely irrelevant to the video, but did you interact with any of Harar's hyenas?

Alcohol had infected each location everywhere though so khat ain't shit

Yup In Soviet Russia Stalin would keep the masses happy with cheap vodka.

just imagine the scenario here since we export it to Yemen Djibouti Ethiopia and many more

How would you describe the feeling?

​@@myhi892the feeling.. Is so good and long lasting than alcohol.. The downside of it is hangover..

​@@myhi892I agree with the guy in the video, it's like a strong cup of green tea Maybe I stopped chewing to early but I got really tired from the taste and it was starting to get a really gross texture lol

Shill

@@UnknownUser-fe5zu😂ikr

You could say those advertisements let the Khat out of the bag.

Ba dah bum😂

Man DJI had Khat stands set up like lemonade 😂. You're right, it was crazy!

I also was confused during my time there, but soon as the President of Djibouti made himself President for life, it all made sense. The drug is a hunger a suppresant and makes you calm.

That’s very strange but also not surprising. People in those parts behave very strangely when it comes to foreigners. I say this as someone from “those parts” (East Africa). It kinda feels like a very paternalistic way of trying to protect (certain kind of) foreigners with an end goal of making sure the foreigners have a positive view of the local area. Idk if that made any sense…it’s a weird cultural thing I’ve noticed that I have a hard time wrapping my head around

Why limit yourself to only Israeli media, when the substance is being used and originates elsewhere? There are people in the comments on this video detailing personal accounts of the drug. Do you somehow think that the media is more informed or honest than those who have actually witnessed it?

The accounts sounded similar to accounts of alcohol usage pre-prohibition tbh. From the high use in the areas it is popular, the effects it has on families (going out at night to consume it with friends and wasting your money on it), and even its impact on the economy. So I would say it is likely akin to alcohol in terms of "druginess".

I'd be interested in learning anything you learn about it's use from research!

@@SkunkApe407 I think his point is that hes never heard any negative sotires about the use of khat in isreal, so he wants to see if there are any. He watched the video and heard the stories about its use elsewhere, so he wants to see if the same thing is going on in his home country.

@@fritzstammen4535 that just tells me that the Israeli media is censoring reports.

Can you please tell me how the trip felt?what was it like...i have never tried any drugs...except weed and when i was younger i did sniffed glue once.

@@sbtig9637 it wasn't a trip as such, in that there was no 'buzz' or high; it was more one noticed the effects, similar to drinking a couple of pints of strong coffee I guess. I haven't taken any amphetamines, ecstasy or cocaine so I can't compare.

The conversion rate is not 1/1 on Kenyan shillings to Uk pence. Also the stem doesn’t give any high as proven by research. Stop with the cap and clout chasing

@@aonstability5428 The exchange rate was £1 to Ksh100 at the time. You don't know what you are talking about so get out of my face. Fool.

​@@aonstability5428 The conversion rate is correct for the time. Please give details of this research so I can discredit it. And what is cap, do you mean crap? Because you're full of it.

Nicotine also gives a buzz

If the one chemical that’s like an amphetamine but less so could be extracted without the uptake inhibitor, that could be really interesting for a lighter ADHD med

Would it be different if coffee was banned?

It's literary the opposite of alcohol... So you might work even more than usual...

@bantuvoicemuchaik.k.7715 Simon talked about a lot of guys leaving work in the early afternoon to spend the rest of the day chewing khat. ​@@mgstickman1754 Large numbers of people don't clock out right after lunch to go to a coffee shop and sip away with friends until night while neglecting family.

TRUTH..... Never give an order or make a law you can't enforce.

Yup. I think that the criminal element is the biggest danger presented by illegal drugs.

Be gangster

2nd rule: never invade russia during winter

All his channels are the same. They just do whatever regardless of the channels “topic”

Have you found BrainBlaze yet? Like casual criminalist but more tangents and instead of true crime random topics. All 3 are in my favourite channels.

@@Iris_and_or_George I have but I don't watch consistently, just the odd topic here and there. Thanks for the suggestion though!

I love CasCrim the most too, but BrainBlaze and Into the Shadows are excellent offerings from Simon and his team. I am always learning something new from Into the Shadows and enve Brain Blaze, because I basically live under a rock. I also love Warographics, but that channel's content is incredibly intense, and can stifle the spirit sometimes. I still watch, I appreciate the education on past and current conflicts greatly. I know more about the conflict in Ukraine than any of my friends now, for instance.

@@FoxWolfWorld Yet here you are, commenting... This means you're watching anyway, or you're a Troll. I do hope you're the former. I'd also like to know which episodes you are thinking of, from what channel. If you are thinking of say TopTenz, Simon's team was not much involved with that channel's content, and Simon has parted ways with that production anyway. Maybe you're annoyed at Today I Found Out?

I'm convinced that what most people need (besides hydrating, avoiding nasty stuff like tobacco, and brushing teeth) is to use a tongue scraper daily. Most of the stank in your mouth comes from the gunk on your tongue. P.S. Once clean, use coconut oil as a mouthwash for the final step! 👌

Bad breath and green teeth were the deal breaker for me to not use it.

I should think it's a deal breaker for women, that's for sure. It might do some men good to realise that smelling bad is a right turn-off.

Seems to me there are not many options. The land doesn't grow much, so no crops or feed for livestock. Kinda like the reservation for native america. It's kinda just a port city

​@@carlamarlene2927The video literally stated farmers were growing khat instead of food, because of the profit.

depends what you aim for in soceity and life. People are content to Chew, let them Chew. No is is content in the race for materialism. Monetary slavery via the debt system and an ever inflating currency etc. Society as it stands is disgusting.

Always judge others harshly, who live their lives in ways you personally don't want to live. Freedom is for losers.

Might would help if the united states didn't bomb the sh*t out of them either. Educate yourself on the real monsters.

Don't chat shit. Meth and PV are basically equipotent. Yes you can smash more meth in a sesh than PV but at first dose 5mg is all you need of either.

Can confirm from experience with synthetic cathinones like N Ethyl Pentedrone and 3 Methyl Methcathinone, they are extremely euphoric and dangerously addictive, even more so than amphetamine (can't speak on meth), and probably dont need to exist. That doesn't mean the parent plant should be illegal though, as that would only promote new and more dangerous derivatives to be developed

The heart trouble would be linked to norepinephrine, but hallucinations and paranoia would be linked to sleep deprivation and dopamine.

Stop lying so much. I am from there and many people sit around all day eating khat with tea, I’ve never seen or heard of an overdose or anything close to what ur saying. It’s literally just leaves that give same buzz as a cigarette. It’s not even that addictive. It’s just sold in poverty areas so no jobs poor men sit around eating it all day.

@@speedoflight589 Read the comment. OP is specifically about synthetic cathinones. You comparing it to cigarettes perfectly highlights just how addictive it actually is. Because it doesn't give a major high, the barrier to entrance is low and it's socially accepted. A heavy smoker isn't able to just stop smoking. Neither is a Kath user just able to stop using it. Add to that the social aspects and habits that form around taking it, and you have a very addictive substance.

I think the best decription of lotto I've seen is "A voluntary tax on the poor and stupid."

A tax on being bad at math.@@Nerathul1

But in reality it’s a tax on the unempowered and disenfranchised who feel it’s the only likely way to overcome their circumstances. Which direct work of course. Even for the free who win

But lotto buyer get high too😅

I have a regular at my work who comes in at 5:30 am and buys lottery. She spent $400 on keno and bought $100 dollars of scratch tickets aswell

Well, if you chew for long hours, you overwork your body and you're exhausted the next morning. Most people where I'm from use it to stay alert and work long shifts. I'd use it to work online for 18 hours. Then immediately I woke up, I'd start chewing again to get rid of the exhaustion. It's definitely not healthy, but it's nothing like all those other drugs it's been classified with.

Based

Exactly

Try being a chronic pain patient these days with the opiate epidemic going on.

@@JinksDeJenn Preaching to the choir. I have found other ways to manage but those who haven't are some of the few who have my truest sympathy.

@@ninjaswordtothehead Absolutely

@@JinksDeJenn i am and they dont care about me one bit

Hhh. Wakenya haki

Tell them

Simon spoke about how much productivity is lost. Why don’t they chew while they work?

so .. like .. can I get some? it's uh ... for research

Lucky

The only reason weed has such a bad reputation is because of the manufactured link between weed and cocaine created by Ronald Reagan to get rid of the detractors of the Vietnam War who were mostly Hispanics and Blacks, so Reagan planted cocaine in the black communities made a whole deal about them being junkies and then basically said that all of them started by smoking weed. This is real, many government officials have confirmed it, if I recall correctly even the head of national security confirmed that it was true saying "we made them the enemy, we needed to make them the enemy, and we got away with it"

He almost alluded to it in the video: productivity. Can’t have a bunch of workers not working! Bad for the economy if the slaves are off having fun! I do find it strange though that the west won’t just legalise and make money off the multibillion drug industry.. I mean we’re getting there but painfully slowly

Trueeee

Tell that to poor Portland 😢

You mean a city where homelessness is a major problem? How does that contraindicate anything I just said? Homeless people often turn to drugs to numb the pain of a bleak existence.@@triawillow1972

Drug addiction as a problem stands on its own.

@@Davefinney370 Yes and no , addiction is a disease of it's own but causal and after effects are common.

English people know what a trunk is, everyone outside America knows American terms because America inserts itself into everything

Not to mention that if Khat was the Big Bad Drug your partner assumed, the pi55ed - off 'junkie' driver wouldn't have troubled too much about giving you your luggage back!

Seems like you friend had forgot y'all weren't in Kansas anymore..I woulda let him to not speak to the ppl anywhere else like that around me after that. Sheesh. Let alone travel anywhere foreign with him again. 🤦

When in Rome...

💯

Alcohol is as bad as any drug. But senators and congress men like to drink. So it’s not going anywhere. Khat is addictive. I’m glad it’s illegal. IMO 😮

ya man thats how they always been sadly

You would think the failed drug war would teach people a lesson, but no they are gonna double down and try and regulate the world.

@@sirvilhelmofyonderland Khat is addictive. Caffeine is addictive. Nicotine is addictive. Alcohol is addictive. Hydrocodone is addictive. ___________ is addictive.

you're being sarcastic right?

@@vilian9185 absolutely not, prohibition has 100% success rate we should reinstate alcohol prohibition

@@vilian9185 Nah...

And legalization has worked so well in Portland…

Two countries tried paying their citizens to kill off a species that was invasive, one succeeded, the other one had people breeding them so they could sell the bodies to the government. Maybe it works differently depending on circumstances? If what you are saying is true we may need to legalize a lot of drugs that have been made illegal.

Why dose it fall on usa? Pretty sure mankind has had a drug problem ever since we found it.

At that point the high was coming from the whiskey and not the leaves

Like he said the leaves must be fresh to be effective

You should take it with some chewing gum or peanuts... anyways nowadays there's a juice extracted from the leaves. It's more powerful. But can be taken with a soda or juice and thus palatability won't be an issue. I'm Kenyan btw. It's popular here

You have to take chewing Gum, or Sugar sweets with it I was a User for like Three years in Kenya... It has an amazing High, you feel more awake and sensitive It's a nice experience but will definitely dump the drug after (Or at least not decide to take it for a while) It's not a Bad drug as they make it look Like

@@korre3193 It's a pretty bad drug don't sugar coat it.

Yes. Drug use is a symptom not the disease itself

Agree

It could be argued that the drug can amplify pre-existing issues, however the same thing can be said about alcohol. So I guess a solution to the problem might be more complex than to just simply ban the drug outright.

​@@gamin9wizard945No shit, 99% of people using drugs do so to cover some form of mental problems. I smoke hash for the same reason.

I’m trying to think of of a single human family that does not have any problems… hum.. nope, I have never encountered such a thing. Sooo….

It's worst effect is it boosts laziness, most users are sloths.

​@@Tony.kayAmiri that's not Khat bro. Khat actually makes you more alert. I'd use it in kenya to work online for 18 hours. The kind of users you're talking about are in the middle east. They're not sloths because of khat. We can say the same thing about hookah... They're just generally lazy.

Chemical addiction to certain drugs is arguably not a choice of the user, since the habit arguably becomes an almost uncontrollable instinct, removing the informed consent of the drug user. If drug use was always a conscious and informed choice (as libertarians often tend to argue when advocating liberalization) then rehab centers would either A) not be needed or B) have a much higher success rate

Keep that western mindset to yourself. You do not have a right to hurt yourself. A society of unhealthy people is an unhealthy society. We want our societies healthy. We believe in harm reduction not just for others but also for the self.

@valenciasaintilus9573 where did I say I anything about harm reduction? I'm speaking about bodily autonomy, smart guy. You can still practice harm reduction with freedom! I'm a proud and free Westerner enjoying my life the way I want to do it.

@@yvito125 Want autonomy and freedom , go to Mars .

@@yvito125 you call the right to hurt yourself “ bodily autonomy” but for us it simply self harm. And one does not have the right to hurt themselves.

Most of the "bath salts" are derived from khat

The market itself, nor the drug for that matter, is not inherently insidious. Prohibition and criminalization makes it insidious.

Lol they know that and they also know that a few people isolating psychedelic alkaloids from cacti aren’t really a problem.

@@MrMannyfresh78 San Pedro and Peruvian Torch, while a pain to prepare, provide a really nice trip; more relaxed than acid (but much longer onset).

Never tried it but longer onsets can be a blessing compared to shorter more abrupt ones in my experience

I have a San Pedro cactus. It is NOT easy to prepare it in a way that doesn't make you excruciatingly sick. Lots of people know about it, and only a few want to try it. Of the few that try it, almost no one tries it again

You just kinda chew it and keep it your mouth but yeah. Cats taste bad like that.

@@myboysd5772😂

😂

A lot of dead junkies have said the same thing.

Must be nice to be blessed with such a strong moral character and willpower, unlike those weak and filthy “junkies”.

Fact of life... WE the people, don't get any accurate or precise information about any of these topics. Instead, you get alarmists and doom-sayers on BOTH sides of the debate screaming about the evils of either or both sides. They ALL misrepresent the reality to bend to their opinions and intentions, and without PHYSICALLY trying the stuff for yourself, you just can't take anyone's word for it... Which is okay until you try heroin or nicotine for yourself... and in one hit around 50% are already hooked, even when they don't know it... AND you may just as easily find the high pleasing enough that the health issues and concerns are too slow to bring a "downside" to your attention to stop before the addiction and inevitable withdrawal are too much to bear on your own. "BUT heroin's a processed drug! We're only talking plants here, like weed and this khat-stuff!" ...Right? Yeah, processed as in crush the juice out of a seed-pod and dry it. That's what it takes to be sufficient to get the withdrawals as bad as "Dope sick" like any of the junkies in rehab or on the street today will happily complain ad-nauseum infinitus about... you WILL either understand or be ready to put a bullet in your head to make it stop... and I DO mean just the complaining. Don't you think in the slow and steady evolutions of society through the various cultures that someone along the line has ALREADY thought about simple regulation on a relatively free market??? ALL these things have been exported and imported and transported around from market to market... many for hundreds or even thousands of years. Yet, somehow the people who get into office to regulate have more and more consistently continued to be about banning and criminalizing... Maybe it's the hell of society's impatience... Maybe it's a fact that too many have seen the insidious sides of these things and figured out that over the longer term, try as you might, you're either going to run out of love and get the HELL away from it, or you'll end up in the bottom of a bottle of the stuff the rest of your MISERABLE and meager existence... rendered for intents and purposes USELESS to the rest of us and everyone around you. BE FRIGGIN' WARE of the "good people" who keep insisting we can get it right "this time"... ;o)

@@gnarthdarkanen7464 wow, if i wanted a rant, I'd have dialed up Alex Jones and told him the New World Order is a crock of shit just to troll him. As far as drugs go, just because YOU need to take that first hit to learn your lesson, doesn't mean the rest of us don't look at accounts of what happens to your body biologically when you take drugs and go "yeaaaaah, knock yourself out man." Some of the most messed up addicts I've ever seen got that way because they were traumatized in some way. There's an alcoholic in my neighborhood who had to kill child soldiers in Desert Storm. Society tells him he has to solve his own problems, so he does it the way his parents and grandparents probably did, a can of beer. A shrink? Oh no, going to a psychiatrist is for women and children. Men don't go to a psychiatrist, that's weak! There are certain things you can do, like prioritizing public services over corporate profit. And if those fucktards on capitol hill won't do it, you keep voting new people in until they get it or you get someone who's sincere. Every time public services are privatized PEOPLE. GET. SCREWED. Look at Texas and their electrical grid. Look at the prices for home insurance in Florida! Look at Flint, MI! They ALL got screwed by privatized services that needed to be public. Any condition or situation that you could die from, like diabetes or thirst or hypothermia, SHOULD be public utilities. And the rudimentary basics of a standard of living and a standard of care should be subsidized. And most of all, limits need to be set and followed and politicians that won't enact or enforce those limits need to be kicked the fuck out!

@@SubFlow22 See my comment to the other guy. Just because you need to take that first hit to understand how bad drugs are, doesn't mean that most of us don't hear accounts of the physiological effects of addiction and go "yeah knock yourself out bruh." You don't have to use to decide you don't care for it. I voted for legalizing marijuana in my state, but I've never taken a hit. NOT. ONE.

Walter white is going to sort the situation out 😮

Drugs are drugs. It doesn't really make sense to put them into different brackets. Yeah, sure, fentanyl is way worse than a joint, but in the end drug users are all doing the same thing. It doesn't matter if it's a joint, a beer, khat, heroin, fentanyl, etc.

@@CRneu today drugs are used for escaping reality and recreation enhancements, rather than for spiritual development . Love is the best drug ever and much more addictive than any substance.

@@CRneuthat’s like saying Tylenol is no different from morphine because they’re both drugs 🙄

@@BigBoaby-sg1yothat’s such a boomer take.

It still is, Simon is waaaay off base with his fear mongering on this

​@@kennedykariukinSimon literally said the same thing you're replying to. Watch the video before spewing

what's crazy is both of this & coffee come from Ethiopia 😳😳

RIGHT!?! Blazement has crept into almost all of his various channels... His channels basically make up my Top 10 list.... Lol!

When a remote place like nunavut, where "society" with its cities, hordes of zombified people and concrete boxes is a far sight, has people getting high on gasoline... I think the problem is not society. Animals in general like to get high. It's been proven with lab research on mice, you've seen it in nature, from elefants eating fermented fruit to get drunk to reindeer eating magic mushrooms... It's not "society"... it's in our nature. What separates us from animals is the fact we have a supersized prefrontal cortex, which boost learning from past experience to predict the better outcome and planning ahead. The problem is that some people completely ignore this... It's called being irresponsible. No alcoholic starts out his addiction without a unhealthy dose of irresponsability to begin with. Same for a crack head, or a cocaine addict. I agree the harshness of society can definitively lead to people trying to find an escape. But that's what every drug addict will tell you to try to take the responsibility off his shoulders. People have to stop blaming "society" for everything that happens to them. It's your choice, always.

This. So much this. I'm always weary of bans on anything because it's not gonna solve anything. The issue is societal and acceptance of doing drugs and alcohol for "entertainment." (The past was literally the worst so often times the alcohol was safer to drink because it was more treated than whatever water there was which resulted in far less deaths.) Let's make people want to live. Good work-life ratio. Good wages. A good view about living, instead of saying life should be torture.

if your "prohibition causes crime" logic held any water, we'd see skyrocketing homicide rates. Prohibition works. Tea has caffeine, which is a drug. Lack of caffeine in an addiction causes withdrawal headaches and irritability. Drugs, not prohibition, cause crime rates to rise. Or are you suggesting that crack, heroin, and meth be legal?

@@SkunkApe407 You make a good point. The cases are almost parallel. But there's a difference between banning a thing and banning an act. Things don't commit crimes--it's what we do with the things that does harm. Still, solving the source of problems is better than punishing them after the fact, if you can do it. One of the reasons I said what I did was based on Medellin, which used to be the murder capital of the world, due to drug gangs. Murders were illegal there, of course, but it didn't slow down the problem, which was caused by drug gang violence. What did slow it down was making drug addiction a medical rather than a legal problem. Addicts could get a drug by prescription legally and cheaply, ending their criminal activities and stabilizing their lives enough for them to get into rehabilitation--after all, they were getting their drugs from those wanting to see them get well, instead of those wanting them to get more people hooked on drugs. The drug cartels had no more financial incentive to stay and left for greener pastures. So, in a sense, eliminating the reason that the murders were taking place was more effective than illegalizing murder.

@@SkunkApe407 I should also address why this didn't work with prescription drug abuse. It wasn't actually tried. There was no middle-ground. Once a doctor realized that his patient had become addicted, by law he had to cut him off completely, often in rural areas that lacked medical support for withdrawal. So instead of ceasing to be an addict, the patient became a criminal addict, robbing people and committing other crimes to get the drugs much more expensively on the streets, from people encouraging them to get still more addicted and to addict others. I am not a fan of mind-altering drugs. I spent my youth terrorized by druggies in the family. But I also saw--against what I wanted to see--how legalizing marijuana in various states reduced deaths from overdoses (people were no longer getting their weed from pushers eager to hook them on the harder stuff, plus doctors could prescribe marijuana instead of harder drugs for pain) and new dependencies dropped because of the lack of minors smoking pot. A pusher will start customers on drugs as young as possible to get the most mileage out of them, but a legitimate business-owner doesn't want to lose his license by selling to minors.

The wood is quite good. Engineering quality.

Perhaps Khat use can explain why many ancient rulers declaired themselves to be living God's 🤔

Generally speaking it’s like betel nut. You have to add slaked lime (burnt limestone) to activate the alkaloids.

Synthetic versions of drugs always seem to be so much worse

@@lancerhades971well yeah a lot of them are made with toxic ingredients thus creating a bad response in the cns.

Let me correct Simon: “Bath salts” are intensely euphoric stimulants which provide hours of pleasurable energy, yet calm focus and heightened empathy. Sound good now?

If you only list _possible_ negative side effects (usually from overuse), and none of the pleasurable main effects, it’s going to sound bad, but believe me, cathinones are wonderful.

Had pure 4MMC many times and Ive never experienced one stated effect. Maybe if you combine with alcohol and you use it for several days (festival combo), you wont feel exactly wonderful the next few days :) But thats reasonable (and you should avoid it to minimize harm)

Come here in Kenya meru to be specific I will show you more about it

Man. My palate for chemicals these days is pretty limited but you almost have me sold 😂

@@MFobesbelieve me, friend, do not fuck around with synthetic cathinones. The person who wrote the comment above was very lucky to not indulge more than a few times and therefore avoided destroying his life as he knew it. Read up about cathinones and believe the horror stories you will find. There is a before and an after synthetic cathinones and i promise you that you will regret for the rest of your life that your life before cathinones or khat for that matter is gone. Just don’t do it.

@@PP-pi7li I do believe you. I don’t dabble in that stuff these days but you have made me interested in researching some more. Your comment is appreciated.

@@PP-pi7li I see what you're saying, but everybody reacts differently. I also know many people for who stims is not a big problem and very occasional (excluding meth and crack, although even with those there are rare cases of using sporadically) I believe it is our right as grown people to put in our bodies what we want, the majority of people also won't down a bottle of wine in one go but will just have a glass, look at these compounds the same way and you shouldn't have any problems. Be very careful what you use and how you use it. Get your life in order first, allot of people who are confident and happy without drugs can hold back against addictive behaviour and just use it at a festival or party/gathering with friends. Once you know how the drug can be destructive and you really ask yourself: Do I want to do this all the time and end up addicted, or do I wanna have fun for once and live the rest of my life until another moment arises in the future. That's the way me and allot of my friends who can control it look at it. Theres tweakers, theres alcoholics, and theres responsible use. Anything can be abused, videogames, pornography, any other form of entertainment, marijuana you name it.

@@MFobes I'm glad to hear it. Stay safe

Honestly

It only increases productivity on a short term, once addiction reaches a more advanced state the users tend to skip work and other responsabilities,some even resort to crime and such

You can say this about amphetamine or meth too.

@@Seibaunite Tell this to the vast majority of all construction workers who are on meth. Shit still gets done

As a user I work while on it, where it is legal, long distance bus and truck drivers can't miss it because it enhances alertness while combating fatigue( basically any type of work).

It's nothing special bro. Dries your mouth out. Not even that good really.

@@JundunYashua I was thinking of making a tea with it, see what that did.

No it doesn't.

South Africa has long planted Catha edulis in afforestation schemes. Which makes sense, because it is quite adapted to the local conditions and it yields engineering-quality wood relatively quickly.

Banning the substance is popular because it looks good and is easy - it looks like taking a proactive, hard stance on a problem and users are the easy targets. Great PR for legislators. However, taking a drug away from an addict without solving the issue of why they are an addict in the first place just drives them to seek the drug or alternatives illegally, which incentivises smuggling and organised crime and that's a lot more dangerous to everyone. The whole chain goes underground and gets a whole lot darker. What's difficult is tackling the underlying causes of systemic substance abuse, most notably poverty and poor quality of life, but fixing those would be far more effective long term. That would however be expensive, takes a long time with less obvious "results", and critics will accuse you of wasting time and money on people who aren't worth it.

Khat is much less destructive than alcohol. It’s more akin to weed (pre-legalization weed before the cultivation of extremely potent stains took off). I promise you no one who isn’t already an abuser is committing domestic violence because they chew khat. It doesn’t have that kind of mind altering potency. Speaking from experience, I’d say that I found smoking weed to be much more of a high which I personally wasn’t a fan of as someone who likes to feel in control of my faculties at all times

You forgot the jazz musicians that popularized it

Im sure i heard somewhere they called it marijuana because it rhymed with tijuana. Probably BS but it did pop in my head when i read your comment

Nothing is fact, evertything is fiction.

That's actually a cover story. The real reason is because hemp paper was threatening the paper industry as it was much easier to grow and produce and a paper baron started spreading rumors about "marijuana" being a new drug causing black men to rape white women. Weed was commonly called cannabis back then people didn't realize that marijuana was the same thing and thus it was made illegal

That's the reason for /most/ of the "War on Drugs." All this stuff was legal until the 60s and 70s. Then suddenly, hey, there's hippies and Black folks getting uppity and protesting, we can't arrest them for protesting, but what if we made this one thing they all like illegal? Thus why pot is class A. This is not speculation- here's a full transcription from a famous Harper's interview with a Nixon aide post-impeachment: “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

You are not supposed to swallow and eat it.

@@valkyriedd5849 I reached the same conclusion before sunrise 😅

Xylazine doesnt cause abscess. Its causes necrosis. Its a vasoconstrictor, shrinking blood vessels. Blood carries oxygen & remove waste. Without it the flesh dies. But these wounds can heal with proper cleaning and debriding, hard for ppl suffering houselessness to maintain. The first symptom is swollen ankles & feet. Take asprin, 81 to 250 mg 1-2x per day to thin the blood so it gets thru. Get it at $🌳. Get on methadone. Certain regions its hard to get. At the very least, switch to heroin if possible. Its not in the heroin supply or the fentanyl heroin dealers sell. Switch to pharmaceuticals if you got the $ for it. Seems intentional. Suppliers wont add cut that quickly kills or discourages use. Its only in very particular areas & the supply is tainted all at once?

They have bigger corporations and brands and the ka-ching ka-ching to legitimise them.

It sure is! 'd chalk that down to all the so-called 'elites' using cocaine. One of my best friends used to get some really good kick ass smoke then her damn hubby got her hooked onto meth. After that, no more smoke. And she changed like a complete 180. It's funny & sad how a bigger /more expensive drug makes people feel superior. No, we're not friends anymore, I really miss her & who she used to be😞😧

Facts! increased mental alertness and productivity

high doses of khat release to much dopamine for people to focus.

DO YOU KNOW WHY HE BROKE . .....the guy trying to chat up girls cannot do anything else but chat them,.

How do you solve it

You took it wrong bro. Someone should have mentioned the right way to take it.

You chew it with peanuts which takes away the bitterness. It has to be less than 36 hrs old

Same. Wanted to find where it all begins :)

Hahaha yeah you should watch the casual criminalist if you'd like to see some more of the fun simon. I've never seen him do it on this channel either.

Id watch it. evolution from silk road to alphabay, and all the scams and rug pulls along the way