<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#ccff99;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a954c6f0-4157-4df5-bc04-bb73e7fe1cc1/00D71565-6442-45DA-ACB1-9EF6D991A843/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dawnpugh.com/2009/09/17/turning-over-a-new-leaf-can-result-in-drug-use-serious-mental-illness-and-even-murder/" href="http://www.dawnpugh.com/2009/09/17/turning-over-a-new-leaf-can-result-in-drug-use-serious-mental-illness-and-even-murder/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dawnpugh.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dawnpugh.com/2009/09/17/turning-over-a-new-leaf-can-result-in-drug-use-serious-mental-illness-and-even-murder/"><H1 class="entry-title">Turning Over a New Leaf can Result in drug Use, Serious Mental illness and even Murder!</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dawnpugh.com/2009/09/17/turning-over-a-new-leaf-can-result-in-drug-use-serious-mental-illness-and-even-murder/"><P>Apparently there is a large community of Somalians living in Liverpool (approximately 9000) quite a few of these Somalians are detained under the mental health act for drug induced psychosis. This is the impact that Khat has in the United Kingdom. In the US the impact is catastrophic in comparison;</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dawnpugh.com/2009/09/17/turning-over-a-new-leaf-can-result-in-drug-use-serious-mental-illness-and-even-murder/"><P>Khat chewing is a practice that dates back thousands of years in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula where the khat plant is widely cultivated and known by a variety of names, including qaat and jaad in Somalia, and chat in Ethiopia. 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