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Bundles of miraa twigs used to manufacture the miraa chewing gum, toffee and fudge.
According to its manufacturer, the invention, whose ingredients include gum base, oils, sugars, miraa, gum Arabica and aspartame, makes chewing miraa easier, more stylish and hygienic.
Nothing feels like the real thing, eating a miraa chewing gum ni kama kunyonga kanugu
So, can someone urgently confirm if Ms Rek East Africa Ltd CEO [COLOR=rgb(0, 168, 133)]Maore Ithula-a is a Meru or Muhindi
What guys don’t know is that miraa is far more potent than cocaine or coca leaves.
The Israeli’s also chew miraa. A few years ago some Jewish entrepreneurs tried to synthesize the active ingredient in miraa which is known as cathinone. Such that guys who don’t like chewing khat can pop the pill instead.
They turned cathinone into a pill called hagigat. Customers took the pill and went mad! Vomiting, delusions, brains exploding aka intracerebral hemorrhage
The pill was banned promptly.
If you turned miraa into a form of cocaine you would kill many.
Utamu ya handas Ni taksin
[SIZE=7]Hagigat Derivatives Are Not All Fun and Games[/SIZE]
Dan Even
18.11.2009 | 02:50
Five years have passed since the use of the hallucinatory drug Hagigat was banned in Israel. Hagigat contains the active ingredients Cathinone, Methcathinone, and Cathine which are produced from khat leaves.
However, various derivatives of the substance are still sold in kiosks in Israel and can cause severe damage.
According to the Dangerous Drugs Act, the official list of dangerous drugs must be updated for every new derivative of the active substance that is marketed. The Health Ministry has long worked on a plan to amend the act to make it possible to name whole groups of drugs in the legislation.
A comprehensive study published last year in the scientific journal “Clinical Toxicology” pointed to dozens of cases of poisoning from Hagigat pills of different derivatives that contained 200mg of Cathinone per pill. It was found that the use of the derivatives increased after the original Hagigat drug was made illegal.
There were 34 reports of poisoning, which brought on headaches, vomiting, increased blood pressure, nausea, irregular heartbeat, difficulties in breathing, pressure in the chest and muscular pains.
The researchers also found serious effects including damage to the heart, pulmonary edema and intracranial hemorrhage.
