It may look unappetizing and taste terrible, but many ni-Vanuatu regard kava’s warm, soporific embrace as a gift from the gods. Long a staple of South Pacific island rituals, the narcotic wrung from ...

King Charles III took part in a traditional kava-drinking ceremony before a line of bare-chested, heavily tattooed Samoans and was declared a "high chief" of the one-time Pacific island colony ...