yemen, a beautiful country that has turned ugly

QAT: the social narcotic that has come to mean everything for the life of a Yemeni. it has destroyed the country and the people one by one.=(


Laid-back attitude leavens the revolution
www.washingtonpost.com

we must tackle the qat epedimic in yEMEN. by way of boycotting Qat. you can't claim to advocate those things without trying to eliminate a major factor impeding on them in the first place! We're not talking about a small group of people - the vast majority of the population... is in a constant state of false euphoria induced by a legal psycho-stimulant drug (yes, a drug.. same molecular make-up as amphetamines); whichever way you look at it, it's a disaster personally, socially, economically, culturally.. and now, politically. People don't chew because they have nothing better to do, they do nothing because they're too busy chewing. Sitting around in jalasat qat having heated 'discussions' about the government and status quo isn't going to change things. We'd be better off if heroine took it's place, at