| Bottom line: everybody is making it, and many are taking it. |
[AnNahar] A string of major drug busts in Syria and Leb has drawn new attention to the trade in captagon, an illegal substance that has flourished in the chaos of Syria's war.
Security forces in both countries have clamped down in recent months on exports of the psychostimulant, produced in swathes of Syrian and Lebanese territory where government oversight is lax or non-existent.
"When the Syrian crisis started, Leb and Syria were transformed into a gateway to smuggle captagon," a Lebanese security source told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity. |