http://www.zeit.de/2011/08/Jemen-DrogenhandelKat nährt im Jemen Bauern, Pflücker und Händler mit schlimmen Nebenwirkungen für das Land.
Siebzig Prozent aller Männer und ein Drittel der Frauen kauen sie täglich.
Kat kann eine der Ursachen für die schlimme Lage in dem Land sein.
Aber einige wollen das nicht glauben.Khat ban: Why is it being made illegal?
The drug could make pre-existing mental health problems worse and it can provoke feelings of anxiety and aggression.
Eigentlich beweist die Situation in Somalia und Jemen, dass der Konsum von Kat gefährlich ist.There's no good evidence to suggest a direct link between khat use and psychosis."
Eigentlich ist es ja offensichtlich.But in an article for the World Health Organisation on Yemen, where an estimated 90% of adult males chew for three to four hours a day, Dr A A Gunaid from Sana'a University has warned: "Khat chewers experience euphoria followed by depression, while people who are genetically predisposed are extremely vulnerable to psychosis."
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-27921832"We took the decision based on the strong views of the Somali community, particularly the mums and wives," the minister says.
"They felt that khat was stopping the Somali community from integrating; it was distracting the husbands and sons from getting the education and the jobs that their wives and mothers desperately wanted them to get."
She is also keen to point out that the active component chemicals in khat - cathinone and cathine - are actually already banned in their own right - cathinones were sold as legal highs until 2010 when they were made class B drugs.
"They don't eat food, they don't sleep when they abuse khat," he said. "That causes huge mental problems and the evidence is that Somali mental breakdown is increasing."
http://www.pharmawiki.ch/wiki/index.php?wiki=CathinonVon einem Cathinon-Missbrauch ist aufgrund der teils lebensgefährlichen Nebenwirkungen abzuraten. Zu den möglichen unerwünschten Wirkungen gehören unter anderem:
Zentrale und psychiatrische Störungen, z.B. Reizbarkeit, Schlaflosigkeit, Psychosen, Ruhelosigkeit, Erregung, Schwindel, Halluzinationen, Abhängigkeit
Herz-Kreislauf-Erkrankungen: Bluthochdruck, schneller oder langsamer Puls, Herzinfarkt, Brustschmerzen, Hirnblutungen
Verdauungsbeschwerden: Appetitmangel, Übelkeit, Erbrechen, Mundtrockenheit