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Khat, weed-first time, seasoned toker-plesasant stimulation

Limpet Chicken

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This trip report is at the very tail end of a shroom trip (3g Columbian cubensis), although I was in the afterglow phase, not actively tripping.

I went into town, to pick up some herb, as I had been awake for two days and wished to sleep and chill, on the spur of the moment , I decided to treat myself to a brand new glass pipe, so went into the local headshop and immediately noticed a sign on the door, advertising fresh khat, so, being curious, and having £130 to hand, I went in, and looked around, got some silver skins, and a nice combined glass oiler and pot glass pipe, with a delicate thin, kinked glass stem.

I made an enquiry as to the khat, and bundles were being sold for £20, for some reason, a conversation ensues with the owner of the headshop about unusual entheogens, and the guy sells me a big bundle of khat twigs and leaves, for just £10, seemingly he liked my style, in growing the things I do, and my research=D

I thanked the owner, and walked out, khat in hand, wrapped in a banana leaf.

After breaking in my new pipe, with £10 worth of a darkish green, really sticky skunk, and £20 worth of a lighter green, very crystal coated neon green herb, just a taste of each, to christen my new piece (pictures of both the different pot strains and the pipe in my gallery), I tore off a wad of the khat, mostly thin twigs and a few leaves, and chewed at the back of my mouth for a minute or two, then stuffed it, drug using hamster-fashion, into my cheeks, and occasionally chewed and swallowed the juices.

The khat tasted very green and plantlike, if you get my drift, the leaves had little taste, and were few in number, but the stems, tasted very bitter, and highly astringent for the first half hour of chewing.

Another pipe was smoked, with a little of each strain I had on me, sat peacefully contemplating, at a cathedral, seated on the step, blazing pipe in one hand, bundle of khat in the other, cheeks stuffed like a fucking gerbil, then, I decided, as I was beginning to feel pleasurable waves of stimulation, without any of the unpleasant jitters associated with amphetamines, to rip off a fistful of khat from my bundle, which was roughly 400g in weight, a very nice buy for the £10 I payed for it.

This was chewed, now I had began to get used to the taste of the khat, and I chomped away on the church step for 20 minutes or so, getting nicely focussed, clearheaded, and stimulated to about the same degree of intensity as two nice lines of good quality coke.

The effects of the khat synergised really well with the quality herb I was toking, although I needed to spit quite often, to discard exhausted khat juice, there were no jitters, or unpleasant CNS effects, apart from a slight, expected raising of the heartbeat, and a very gently tapering of effects, without craving, and without any sleep disturbance, I was able to go home, lie down with some music playing and toke a blunt, then nodded off into the pot induced dreamy nodding, similar to when I use dihydrocodeine, and drift off in half an hour or so.

I have the rest of the bundle moistened under the tap to keep it fresh and put into the fridge, waiting for a little pick-me-up tomorrow or the next day, as there is enough left to last two days or so.

Overall vote on khat: its very nicely active, a gentle, yet very euphoric stimulant, no nasty comedown, no noticeable comdown at all really, and synergised perfectly with the weed.

I think I might try chomping on a quid, while practicing on my guitar tomorrow, I think it would aid focus and stoned enjoyment of music very well:)

Its good that khat is unscheduled here, I walked past several lots of police, who looked as they walked past, and seemed to know what the bundle was, and why I looked like I had the cheek pouches of a giant gerbil, but gave no unwanted attention whatsoever to the fact that I was openly chewing and stuffing my face as I walked down the street, I think, given the price, that I will try it again, and possibly see what my friends who use think of it, seeing as its unscheduled, a bundle of khat, some munchie food, and a bowl or two would make for quite a nice social get together.

Definately getting another bundle of the stuff, some time in the future.
 
I decided to chew the rest of my bundle tonight, along with a good few bowls of high grade sticky ass skunk, also, acidified the khat quid with coke (the drink), for the phosphoric acid to leach out the alkaloids more efficiently.

The high, when really stoned, feels remarkably clearheaded, my body, feels sedated almost, but my mind, hell, its going fast as shite, I only have a small amount left, tried to introduce my friends to it, but they thought I was wierd chewing on a gobful of leaves and twigs, so going to finish up the rest of this now and consider submitting it to Erowid, for its almost vacant khat vault:)

Also, Jimmy The Gun, what do you mean by "your type of drug user"? LOL, apparently your average khat user is somali, or african, and they are quite surprised if a white guy comes up to buy khat.

It is legal over in the UK, but I don't know if your from the US or elsewhere, as khat is on the borderline of legal, the DEA considers it illegal, but strictly speaking, it is unscheduled, although both cathinone and cathine (cathinones degredation product on drying) are schedule I or II.
 
Limpet: how would you rate khat compared to more commonly used stimulants?

is it at all similar to meth, cocaine, ADD meds etc
 
I just had a cup of khat tea, and I am buzzing nicely, I would say its fairly gentle in comparison with 4-MAR and meth, more on a level with methylone without the empathogenic effects, so much, and gentle peaks of stimulation and bodily tingling.

Excellent shit, it really is, I am going to grow a few trees myself as soon as I can get seeds%)
 
I was reading a documentary on Khat on the news. They chew it alot in Bristol which is near where I live. Apparently the alkaloid content is similar to ephedra. There was controversy over whether or not it should be banned. Although it could be argued that it was relatively harmless and sociable, the wives claimed that their husbands were spending too much money on it.
 
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I agree, the stuff probably is harmful with chronic use outside of a cultural setting, he alkaloid present in the fresh state is cathinone, basically ephedrine oxidised to a ketone, hence its alternative name, ephedrone.

I definately will try khat again, when I have spare cash, but just keep itto an occasional thing, like it was meant to be.
 
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