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"Khat, marijuana, peyote--are these dangerous drugs or vilified plants with rich cultural and medical values? In this book, Lisa Gezon brings the drug debate into the 21st century, proposing criteria for evaluating psychotropic substances. Focusing on khat, whose bushy leaves are an increasingly popular stimulant and the target of vehement anti-drug campaigns, she explores biocultural and socioeconomic contexts on local, national, and global levels. Gezon provides a multidisciplinary examination of the plant's direct physical and psychological effects, as well as indirect social and structural effects on income and labor productivity, identity, gendered relationships, global drug discourses, and food security. This sophisticated, multileveled analysis cuts through the traditional battle lines of the drug debate and is a model for understanding and evaluating psychotropic substances around the world"--
Khat --- Abyssian tea plant --- Arabian tea plant --- Catha edulis --- Kat --- Miraa --- Qat --- Sallaa --- Somali tea plant --- Catha --- Psychotropic plants --- Social aspects. --- Economic aspects. --- Political aspects.
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This book provides a richly detailed ethnography of Kenyan khat, tracing some of the many national and transnational trajectories this controversial stimulant takes from its centre of production in the Nyambene Hills to consumers in Kenya and throughout the world. The author, guided by his friend and khat connoisseur M'Mucheke, draws out the full economic, social and cultural significance of the substance, situating this significance within current debates on the legality of khat and the global rhetoric of the 'war on drugs'. The work explores how networks of Kenyan khat bring people of diverse backgrounds together in sometimes uneasy relationships, and highlights the vast cluster of meanings this remarkable commodity has accrued in its 'social life'.
Drug control. --- Drug traffic --- Qat --- Qat. --- Drug control --- Drug enforcement --- Drug law enforcement --- Drug policy --- Drug traffic control --- Drugs --- Narcotics, Control of --- War on drugs --- Vice control --- Drug dealing --- Drug production, Illicit --- Drug smuggling --- Drug trade, Illicit --- Drug trafficking --- Illicit drug production --- Illicit drug trade --- Narcotic trade --- Narcotic traffic --- Narcotic trafficking --- Smuggling of drugs --- Smuggling of narcotics --- Traffic, Drug --- Trafficking in drugs --- Trafficking in narcotics --- Drug abuse and crime --- Narco-terrorism --- Abyssian tea plant --- Arabian tea plant --- Catha edulis --- Kat --- Miraa --- Sallaa --- Somali tea plant --- Catha --- Psychotropic plants --- Government policy --- Prices and sale --- Khat. --- Khat --- Sociology of culture --- Social geography --- Kenya
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Third World: agricultural and food problems --- Ethiopia --- Qat --- Agriculture --- Drug traffic --- Qat (Plante) --- Drogues --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects --- History --- Aspect économique --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Trafic --- Harer (Ethiopia) --- Harer (Ethiopie) --- H¯arer (Ethiopie) --- History. --- Rural conditions --- Conditions rurales --- Khat --- Hārer (Ethiopia) --- Rural conditions. --- Aspect économique --- Hārer (Ethiopia) --- Hārer (Ethiopie) --- Hārer (Ethiopie) --- Abyssian tea plant --- Arabian tea plant --- Catha edulis --- Kat --- Miraa --- Sallaa --- Somali tea plant --- Catha --- Psychotropic plants --- Drug dealing --- Drug production, Illicit --- Drug smuggling --- Drug trade, Illicit --- Drug trafficking --- Drugs --- Illicit drug production --- Illicit drug trade --- Narcotic trade --- Narcotic traffic --- Narcotic trafficking --- Smuggling of drugs --- Smuggling of narcotics --- Traffic, Drug --- Trafficking in drugs --- Trafficking in narcotics --- Drug abuse and crime --- Narco-terrorism --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Prices and sale --- Hārar, Ethiopia --- Hārar (Ethiopia) --- Harrar (Ethiopia) --- Developing countries: agricultural and food problems
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