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Somalia: Banning Khat the Right Move!

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Here is an eye-opener opinion on the long overdue ban of this drug.

 

Interestingly enough, Baidoa warlords or pseudo government opposed the ban which drained our meagre resources and energy on the ground that Mogadiscio's people deserve khat for having expulsed the warlords now in Baidoa!

 

Let's hope that, inshallah, our own Somali regions will follow soon and drop their deadly addiction to finally achieve any sustainable progress while salvating our families and economy...

 

 

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Banning Khat the Right Move

 

 

With the lack of law and order in Somalia for the last sixteen or so years, many drugs chief among which is Khat, have found a permanent home in the Somali nation’s psyche. Millions of badly needed shillings or US Dollars are wasted everyday in the importation and consumption of this narcotic leaf both in Somalia and ******.

 

While the Somalis everywhere from ****** to Somalia are busy munching on the leafy narcotic drug under the afternoon shade everyday, Kenyan and Ethiopian entrepreneurs have had a field day in collecting unparalleled profits they have never seen before the start of the Somali civil strife.

 

Not only does the importation of Khat deprive the local economies hardly needed cash and hard currency but this imported Khat negatively impacts all facets of familial life. There are many documented cases of families going hungry while either the father or the mother, a new phenomenon, spend the family’s meager resources towards buying Khat.

 

In the June 2006 issue of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, the effects of the consumption of Khat were documented scientifically. According to the lead researchers Dr Sagar Saha and Dr Clare Dollery, long term [Khat] use results in increasing risk of heart attack, liver damage as well gingivitis and tooth loss.

Research also indicates [they add] that heavy khat chewing increases the risk of esophageal cancer.

 

Somalis everywhere have seen the ills of Khat. There is not a single Somali family that has not experienced the side effects of Khat either directly or indirectly. Worse many places in the western world such as the United States of America have started to rigorously enforce the drug statutes in the Common Law, which criminalizes the importation and the consumption of Khat.

 

Considering all the ills of Khat and its health and societal impact, we welcome the recent total ban imposed on both the importation and the consumption of Khat by the rulers of many parts of Somalia. Although difficult at first attempt, we believe that both the money and the time spent on the consumption of Khat can be better spent towards the resolution of both personal as well as societal problems faced by the Somalia nation.

 

 

editorial@******.com

****** Online Editorial

Nov 17, 2006

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NO matter how much you promote USC/ICU rule and no one is interested even your previous article.

 

Originaly posted by Djib-Somali

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Miyaad rabta inaad taageero ama talo si toos ah ugu fidisid kacdoonka ummada Soomaaliyeed ee shareecada waafaqsan?

 

Waxaad fursad u haysataa in aad la kulanto wafdi booqosho ku jooga wadanka Ingiriiska maalinta bari ah.

 

 

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nice article som-dijb not only is it

dangerous to ones health but also the

islamic courts banned it in the entire south

including our capital Banaadir. The banning

of this substance will create more healthier

minded ppl with diin jeceeyl spirit also

the baydhabo and iwm are just tigree stooges period good move by the shuura

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its a good idea but bad logic! so whats the solution. no solution means its gonna go underground...! jaat has never been my cup of tea.

 

i am sensing the main idea against jaat is the money flight from the country...forget the trash sience!

 

so why not grow it in somali and regulate sale dates. make it available to ppl like weekends.

 

this way everybody is happy!! :confused:

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^^ regulating is a good idea and tax it too, but then the cheap imported jaad will still be smuggled in.

 

Jaad can't be banned and shouldnt be banned, it should be regulated and taxed, it would give the government a steady income.

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