Tag: Amphetamine

 In 2021 in a shipment of oranges, the Lebanese officials peeled open the orange to find 9 million pills of the drug Captagon a power amphetamine. However, the smuggler, in this case, wasn't another Columbian, Mexican, or drug cartel. Instead, this involves an entire dictatorial government of Syria which has been mired in civil war since 2011. This has turned the country into the biggest narco- state on Earth, running multi-billion dollar operations to supply drugs and fuel the domestic conflict. Known as the 'poor man, cocaine is an amphetamine-like drug that was developed in is an amphetamine-like drug first developed in the 1960s and banned across the world in the 80s. But it's achieved massive underground popularity in the Middle East and Gulf regions, whose drug cultures often