Tuesday, February 3, 2009

So what did a Muslim think about my column on khat?

After picking up my column this Southern Arabian web site made the following statement:

 "If anyone knows where I can score some Shami, let me know. Finally a sane point of view on the matter. The govt. propaganda on the substance is laughable. Not saying Qat isn’t dangerous…it is economically dangerous - at least for Yemen.  Coincidence a pro-qat article comes form Eureka? I think not."

Here's a link to the web site. Note: be sure to scroll down a ways, as the front page is blank till you get halfway down.

Also here is a link to the khat/Qat column I wrote:

1 comment:

Kym said...

Our government is so obsessed with the idea of drugs being harmful to society that they refuse to see that making drugs illegal causes more problems that it solves.

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