The Economist (US), October 8th, 2005
Try doing business without Djibouti's favourite drug getting in your way MOST of Djibouti's men (and some women) spend their afternoons at home, in the streets or on the floor of their government offices, chewing fresh leaves and tender shoots of the plant, holding the mastication in their cheeks like golf balls, for hours on end. After midday, when the daily qat plane flies in from Ethiopia and Djiboutians start queueing to buy their fix, serious business meetings become impossible. Chewing qat gives a similar high to adrenalin, making the consumer more talkative, alert and sociable. It als...
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