Why you should not be chewing Miraa this Weekend or at all

Miraa is made from young stems picked from trees growing near Mount Kenya. It’s usually consumed as fresh as possible — within a few hours of picking and a lightning-fast supply chain distributes it across the region (to Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Yemen and beyond), where men are looking to relax and chat

People have different hormones. We aren’t all together in this. A lot of people chew, then they’re good in sex. Some chew and say it’s a side effect. It’s like food allergies.

In a parking lot in Pangani, a suburb of Nairobi filled with cheap flats, crammed in three-story buildings and connected by dusty potholed roads. The young men are chewing miraa, shoots that if masticated for a few hours will give you a mild buzz, a bit like downing a few espressos.

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The high itself has a name: “Steam.”) You bite into the tender parts of the stem and peel back the reddish bark off the tougher bits. The taste is more or less like grass.

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Miraa drastically cuts your appetite, so Edwin and his friends haven’t eaten since the day before. They haven’t slept either. Another side effect of miraa is that it gets your libido up, but not your penis.

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