I had never heard of this phenomenon until just a few days ago, but it looks like it's been going on for a while, and I wondered what you guys thought of it!

80% of Yemeni people chew this drug called qat (or Khat) (90% of adult men), and 40% chew for 4 or more hours per day. Chewing the plant releases something similar to pure adreniline, and definitely appears to be additive

Yemen families spend between 10-20% of their income on this plant alone, and is thought to be responsible for frail bones in children. As well as this, children who are crewing qat aren't being educated - and apparently is literally creating a generation of illiterate children because they chet qat most of the day.

50% of Yemen's (very limited) water resources are being spent on irrigating qat farms. 

Qat the hell is going on here!?

If there's pretty much one thing to know about Yemen, it's Khat. Just that usually people don't care to know much of anything about Yemen.

It's only a mild stimulant from my understanding, though. Similar to how many in Bolivia and Peru spend a lot of time chewing a mash made from leaves of the Coca plant

It's such a major thing that I'm surprised I hadn't heard of it before 

The articles I read suggested that you could stay up all night if you chewed enough of it though

That could well have been Opium. That's the drug they grow in Afghanistan, and that's sort of what Opium looks like in that stage of processing.

So we have one person that knows what opium looks like and another that has potentially had it. Should I worried? :P

I hate to imagine what foods you've been eating xD

That really sucks. Hopefully they'll realize the problem and fix it. Nations in that area are usually better and being anti-narcotic. However, this was probably originally considered more akin to tobacco and therefore accepted.

idk, haven't researched it so I could very well be wrong here.

Rol exclusively eats 25 year old boxes of Nintendo Cereal System.

Yeah , I've been there, everyone smells funny, some even have trouble talking, but they're also famous for their traditional clothing, as they holster huge daggers around their waist, if you don't wear it , you're not Yemeni

I thought you were talking about Texas until you got to the part about daggers.