 CART farmers in Kenya have suffered huge losses in the last few years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, diplomatic spat with neighbouring Somalia, and banned in many countries. Now farmers are turning to sunflowers to supplement their incomes. In Kenya, CART is classified as a drug by the National Authority for Campaign Against Drug Abuse, Nakada. The leaf is chewed as a stimulant and is particularly popular in Somali communities. Before the 2014 ban, the United Kingdom imported up to 2,800 tonnes of CART a year, mainly from Kenya, Ethiopia and Yemen. That's according to a report from the UK's advisory council on the misuse of drugs. The first onslaught on the crop was Theresa May. Now she was then the health minister due to pressure from some lobbying groups who claimed that the mirror twigs and banana fibres were ratifying and polluting the UK. Then they put pressure on the government to ban it. So it was not banned because it wasn't right.