Syria’s $5.7 Billion Drug Empire Crumbles as New Government Burns Million-Dollar Stockpile

A potato chip factory outside Damascus reveals Syria’s dark transformation. Its floors remain sticky with chemicals used to produce Captagon, the highly addictive amphetamine that funded Assad’s regime for years. Captagon, an amphetamine-type stimulant, saw a production boom under Bashar al-Assad’s regime. This surge earned Syria the label of a narco-state. Syria’s drug production exploded […]