Not really. It's wrongly compared in many circles to recreational drugs like weed which dismisses its harm but according to this new Cambridge University report, there's been an explosion of mental health issues in Somaliland. 1 in 2 families have a mental patient.
Then this explains all the rape isaaq do and the babies being left so dogs can eat them.
if one in 2 is crazy no wonder.
when Cabdi iley banned khaat in dds the biggest opponents were isaaq and hawiye and Marehan and MJ and oromo who either used dds to get khaat from Oromia or owned farms in oromia to supply khaat. Iley had to kill a few stubborn Somalis.
same with ahmed madoobe. He does not allow khaat to land in the airport or port as he sees money xaram. They come by speed boats brought by drug dealers but they came through the beaches from lamu with speed boats. Jubaland forces search them and let them through. If ahmed tried to ban it he knows what they did to siad barre when he banned khaat isaaq created SNM. BUT AHMED does not allow tax revenue from it as its xaraam
personally I would advocate those who supply khaat to be shot and those who are caught with more than three times to be executed. It ruins families as men spend their wages on khaat rather than feed the kids