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Captain Gun: A Niche Drug That's Taken Over Huge Parts of the World
Captain Gun is an amphetamine-type stimulant that was produced originally in the 1960s by a company called De Guise AG. In the 1980s, doctors and medical experts began to realize Captagon was not as safe for public health as they originally thought. It caused a number of pulmonary and cardiovascular issues. And so in the mid-1980s, the World Health Organization scheduled Captagon.