Banning Khat / New Statesman, 26 June 2008
http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2008/06/khat-chewing-yemen-another
Hugh Barnes
"Never mind about salmon fishing in the Yemen. Reverse the process of cultural transplantation and you get khat-chewing in the UK, which may sound like an equally harmless minority pastime, but not if you're a Tory drugs tsar (or tsarina). The shadow communities minister Sayeeda Warsi announced last week that a future government led by David Cameron would outlaw chewing of the psychotropic shrub Catha edulis on the grounds that its juices addle the brains of Yemenis, Somalis and Ethiopians who are living in this country."