{"id":93630,"date":"2026-08-31T21:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93630"},"modified":"2026-08-31T21:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:44:21","slug":"khat-is-a-drug-being-smuggled-into-the-us-but-what-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/khat-is-a-drug-being-smuggled-into-the-us-but-what-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Khat is a drug being smuggled into the US &#8211; but what is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2bidh7.img?w=768&h=512&m=6\" alt=\"Large quantities of khat have been seized at several US airports in recent months (AFP via Getty Images)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of pounds of the drug khat have been smuggled into the U.S. over the past month \u2014 but what exactly is it? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/general\/khat-is-a-drug-being-smuggled-into-the-us-but-what-is-it\/ar-AA2bifPS?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a95f4e18a5141ab806b0358da677a5f&ei=21\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Thousands of pounds of the drug khat have been smuggled into the U.S. over the past month \u2014 but what exactly is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/khat.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93632,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93630\/revisions\/93632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}