{"id":47454,"date":"2026-09-07T18:49:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47454"},"modified":"2026-09-07T18:49:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:49:59","slug":"khat-is-a-drug-being-smuggled-into-the-us-but-what-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47454","title":{"rendered":"Khat is a drug being smuggled into the US &#8211; but what is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/khat-drug-stimulant-smuggle-us-b3042330.html?ICID=ref_fark\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-450935386-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:243px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 1,200 pounds of khat were seized at Chicago\u2019s O\u2019Hare International Airport earlier this month<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/khat-drug-stimulant-smuggle-us-b3042330.html\">Khat is a drug being smuggled into the US &#8211; but what is it?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 1,200 pounds of khat were seized at Chicago\u2019s O\u2019Hare International Airport&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[27,2304,57],"class_list":["post-47454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-drugs","tag-khat","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47457,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47454\/revisions\/47457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}