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In this short article I want to share you information about a very dangerous plant called Chat that is found and highly consumed and chewed by many people in East Africa. It is a kind of leaf which is grown in the highlands of Ethiopia; it stimulates and makes some times dizzy any one who chews it like smoking a dangerous drug marijuana and cannabis.
Many young people in East Africa are addicted to this leaf and spend their productive time by chewing it, the process of using this Chat is very ceremonial and will take long time and require some money to buy; on average it will take three to four hours to chew and for some others may be a day long. There are some dangerous habits that are exercised together with chewing chat like drinking too much alcohol just to get a relief from the stimulus it creates in the body and too much alcohol forced to make unsafe sex, this makes every thing difficult and complicated.
You can easily get the chat in every the other shop in the country, a huge sum amount of money is revolving around this transaction. Once you are addicted to this leaf it is too difficult to give up because it is a very dangerous leaf that easily becomes an addiction. It is because of this many young people here in the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa are addicted to this leaf.
In Ethiopia few years ago the leaf was not been consumed by many people. Chewing chat is considered as a culture or tradition that extensively practiced in the Eastern part of the country but these days it is widely exercised in the capital city and all over the country. In some parts of the country especially in the Northern part chewing and producing Chat was considered as evil doing and cursed by all the people but now the story is different. Many farmers have started growing chat in their farm because it is a cash crop that brings more money for the farmers compared to other crops.
These days’ farmers are reducing to produce cereals and shifted their farm land to Chat farm because the demand for chat all over the country is increasing in alarming rate; many young people are addicted to this leaf and spending their time by chewing Chat. Chewing Chat is not legally prohibited and not considered as a dangerous drug in the country and because of this all the people who want to eat chat are free to make use of it.
The country also exported this chat to the neighboring country to Somali, Kenya, Djibouti and to some Middle East and European countries and it is serving as a source for hard currency for the country.
The leaf causes many reproductive and HIV AIDS problem; I will write you more next time about the problem related to this leaf. Many young school boys and girls are in problem with this dangerous leaf.
I recommend you never and ever start chewing Chat; you will be in problem once you start chewing it. It consumes your money, time, energy and knowledge.
If you have any thing to share about chat you are welcome.
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by Anatic09
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