Talk:Qat in Yemen

The "Side effects on teenagers" sounds like scare mongering. Almost like Cannabis' "amotivational syndrome" myth. The side effects section should be divided into health hazards and economic impact.

"For health hazards, the increased use of Qat on the long run leads to gum and dental problems due to increased chewing of the stimulant, and other health hazards." doesn't cut it.

and "They may also lose interest in family and become less motivated in doing things." doesn't sound like what a stimulant would do.

This is why I deleted those sections. Feel free to correct/amend to them and put the back in.

Merge
I agree that this should merge with the article about Khat, the information would help to improve the main article. This artice itself doesn't have enough information to be its own article.

I agree to merge, but I suggest expanding and renaming the section on "Khat in Yemen". You may call it "Khat in the most affected countries" then in clude sections on Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia, Yemen and others. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.135.7.196 (talk) 11:00, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

About merge
Actually i remember that info about "Qat in Yemen" was already merged, and it got splitted for some reason. it should be merged back to the main Qat page, and not as a single article

Quality?
This article is quite choppy and a pain to read. It starts with "one reason" rather than a topic sentence. "the real number may be more" is blatantly repeated word for word, making it sound like it is word-for-word what the source said. A simple "or more" would suffice for the estimations. Water is ecology, not economy, and the negative effects, consisting entirely of economic effects, should be put in the Economy section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.107.153.70 (talk) 21:48, 16 October 2007 (UTC)