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Re:Older Adults' Forgetfulness Tied to Faulty Brain Rhythms ... by elgenie on Monday December 18, 2017 @06:11PM (#15956316)
Khat is a good deal stupider as drug-of-choice in Yemen than alcohol would be. It's a crop that takes up tons of the scarce arable land and even more scarce water in a very poor country in which 17% of income is spent on khat.
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Re:Older Adults' Forgetfulness Tied to Faulty Brain Rhythms ... by dreamdu5t on Monday December 18, 2017 @06:29PM (#15956424)
More stupid? Alcohol kills 16,000 people in car crashes alone. 88,000 alcohol related deaths a year making it the third most popular cause of preventable death.

Then there’s it’s relationship with sexual assault and date rape as well.

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Re:Older Adults' Forgetfulness Tied to Faulty Brain Rhythms ... by elgenie on Monday December 18, 2017 @10:37PM (#15957529)
It's not that alcohol is good, it's that it'd be better than khat for Yemen.

For example: Yemen has 35 cars per 1000 people to the US's 797. Yemen would have to leapfrog through several stages of development for drunken driving to become a blip on their public health radar.

Half of that country currently doesn't have clean water, and they're draining their acquifers dry … to grow khat. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals...

Cholera outbreaks and a water-scarcity exacerbated civil war are simply a different class of problem.

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