In the 1970s and 80s, Syria had its heyday of being one of the largest pharmaceutical hubs in the region. The production of this has to be literally no exaggeration, a massive industrial scale operation. It requires a lot of logistical planning and some pretty advanced and impressive shrouding techniques and smuggling techniques.
New Lines Institute's Caroline Rose explains how captagon, a drug you may have never heard of, is propping up genocidal regimes in the Middle East.
What We Discuss with Caroline Rose:
- What is captagon? Where did it originate, what are its effects, and why don't we hear about it in the United States?
- How captagon — with a potential trade value of over $5.7 billion annually — has transformed Assad's Syria into a Mediterranean narco-state.
- Who uses captagon on such a massive scale, and how is it manufactured and smuggled across borders?
- Why is Syria allowed a seat at INTERPOL, the organization established to reign in international crime — like the captagon trade?
- What can be done to stem the tide of captagon and prevent it from expanding its range and influence even further?
- And much more...
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