MIRAA/KHAT

MIRAA

Miraa is stimulant and a drug of abuse.

It doesn’t solve your problems, it postpones them. When the high fades, the problems return, often worse.

Miraa raises heart rate and blood pressure.

It is again, commonly combined with other stimulants:

• Kuber / tobacco (strong enough to cause cardiac arrest). Nowonder it is used to kill stary dogs in the village
• Energy drinks; Sugar+ caffeine
• Cigarettes
• Coffee

The next morning, headaches come in due to lack of sleep and they head to take maramoja (more caffeine).

They also take diazepam, to help them sleep. They forget diazepam is a muscle relaxant. What a mess!

This stacking of stimulants overloads the heart, increasing risk of hypertension, arrhythmias, heart attack, and stroke.

Avoid miraa and muguka. You are feeding a problem you won’t come out from.

Cancer cases in Marsabit, Meru, Isiolo, Wajir, and Mandera are rising.

MIRAA is one of the contributing factors that cannot be ignored.

Miraa is frequently sprayed with pesticides and preserved with formalin (formaldehyde).

Both are toxic and carcinogenic. As they are chewed daily, these poisons are absorbed directly through the mouth and gut.

The liver struggles to detox daily because again more things are brought in; medicines,food, other poisons, alcohol and sugars.

This creates a perfect environment for chronic disease and cancers.

There’s no reason as to why you need miraa or muguka.

Drop them.