Chewing It 'Like Drinking Coffee After A Meal Here In Canada,' One User Says

Tucked away in the backroom of a restaurant in Toronto, a group of Somali friends gathers to relax in the early evening. One of them carefully reaches into his pocket and pulls out a bundle of khat, stimulant leaves of a shrub popular in East Africa and Arabia.

"In Somalia, if you invite a person to dinner, you have to offer him khat," says one of them, asking that his name not be published.

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