Regulating khat-Dilemmas and opportunities for the international drug control system

International Journal of Drug Policy

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 509-513

  Klein, Axel ^a   Beckerleg, Susan ^b   Hailu, Degol ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c International Poverty Centre   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Khat international drug control development

Indexed keywords

CATHA EDULIS EXTRACT; ILLICIT DRUG;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DRUG CONTROL; DRUG LEGISLATION; DRUG TRAFFIC; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EUROPE; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

CATHA; COMMERCE; CRIME; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DRUG AND NARCOTIC CONTROL; ETHIOPIA; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNATIONALITY; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; UGANDA;

EID: 70349433577     PISSN: 09553959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Anderson D.M., Beckerleg S., Hailu D., and Klein A. The khat controversy: Stimulating the drugs debate (2007), Berg, Oxford
2. Andreas, C. (2008). Prohibition through the back door: Khat in South Africa. Unpublished paper.
3. Avrahami, I. (2004). A qat above the rest. Haaretz. 15.11.2006.
4. Beckerleg S. What harm? East African perspectives on khat. African Affairs 104 418 (2006) 219-241
5. Beckerleg S. What harm: Kenyan and Ugandan perspectives on khat. African Affairs 105 419 (2006) 219-241
6. Borelli S., and Perali F. Drug consumption and intra-household distribution of resources. In: Dagum C., and Ferrari G. (Eds). Household behaviour, equivalence scales, welfare and poverty (2004), Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg
7. Brooke C. Khat (Catha edulis): Its production and trade in the middle east. Geographical Journal (1960) 126
8. Carrier N. The need for speed: Contrasting timeframes in the social life of Kenyan miraa. Africa 75 4 (2005) 539-558
9. Cassanelli L.V. Quat: A quasi legal commodity. In: Appadurai A. (Ed). The social life of things: Commodities in cultural perspective (1986), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
10. Gebissa E. Leaf of Allah: Khat & agricultural transformation in Hararge, Ethiopia 1875-1991 (2004), James Currey, Oxford
11. Gebissa E. Scourge of life or an economic lifeline? Public discourses on khat (Catha edulis) in Ethiopia. Substance Use and Misuse 43 6 (2008) 784-802
12. Grayson K. Drug khatastrophe: Khat and Somali Canadians. In: Howell A. (Ed). Governance and global disorders: Trends, transformations and impasses (2004), York University Press, Toronto, Canada
13. Halliday F. Arabs in exile: Yemeni migrants in urban Britain (1992), I B Tauris, London
14. International Narcotic Control Board. (2006). Annual report. Vienna: United Nations.
15. Isse H. Working with Somali khat users. Drugs and Alcohol Today 5 3 (2005) 20-22
16. Kennedy, J.G. (1987). The flower of paradise: the institutionalized use of the drug qat in North Yemen, D. Reidel Publishing Company.
17. Klein A. Khat and the creation of tradition in the Somali diaspora. In: Fountain J., and Korf D. (Eds). Drugs in society: A European perspective (2007), Radcliffe Publishing, Oxford
18. Klein A. Khat in the neighbourhood-Local government responses to khat use in a London community. Substance Use and Misuse 43 6 (2008) 819-831
19. Klein A., and Beckerleg S. Building castles of spit-The role of khat chewing in worship, work and leisure. In: Goodman J., Lovejoy P., and Sherrat A. (Eds). Consuming habits. new edition (2007), Routledge, London
20. Krikorian A. 'Khat and its use: An Historical Perspective'. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 12 (1984) 115-178
21. La Opinion de Malaga. (2008). (13/02/08).
22. National Drug Intelligence Unit. Khat misuse in the United Kingdom, drugs arena 10 (1990), New Scotland Yard, London
23. Odenwald M., Neuner F., Schauer M., Elbert T., Catani C., Lingenfelder B., Hinke H., Hafner H., and Rockstroh B. Khat use as risk factor for psychotice disorders: A cross-sectional and case-control study in Somalia. BMC Medicine 3 1 (2005) 5
24. Salam K., and Croucher R. Khat chewing amongst UK resident male Yemeni adults: An exploratory study. International Dental Journal 56 2 (2006) 87-101
25. Warfa N., Klein A., Bhui K., Leavey G., Craig T., and Stansfeld S. Association between khat use and mental disorders: An emerging paradigm. Social Science and Medicine 65 2 (2007) 309-318
26. Weir S. Qat in Yemen: consumption and social change (1985), Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications, London
27. World Bank. (2008). Somali joint needs assessment: Somali Reconstruction and Development Programme. Accessed 18.03.09.