Total 1,404 Pounds Seized at Dulles and BWI during February
STERLING, Virginia – Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) seizure of khat shipments continued Monday when officers bagged another 410 pounds in air cargo at Washington Dulles International Airport.
During February, CBP officers seized more than 1,400 pounds of the green, leafy plant at Dulles and at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI). All shipments arrived from Nigeria.
In this latest seizure, CBP officers examined a shipment February 20 from Nigeria that was manifested as “dry moringa oleifera” and destined to an address in Dallas. Officers discovered seven boxes with a combined 80 bags of a green, leafy product. The shipment weighed 186.28 kilograms, or about 410 pounds, 11 ounces.
CBP submitted samples to a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) botanist who verified the substance Friday as Catha Edulis, commonly known as khat. Officers seized the khat Monday. The khat will be destroyed.
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Legalize it.
ReplyDeleteI did not know the US is a khat-free country
ReplyDeleteis not amazing how much power big pharma has...a plant in natural form is illegal schedule 1 ..really?
ReplyDeleteRight in the FBI's backyard (Chantilly, Va.) next to Dulles airport.
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