Syria authorities say 1 million captagon pills torched

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A Syrian rebel fighter inspects pills of Captagon (brand name of psychostimulant drug Fenethylline) produced at a makeshift lab facility at a ranch villa in the town of Al-Dimas about 27 kilometers northwest of Damascus on December 22, 2024. (AFP)
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  • Forces pour fuel over and set fire to a cache of cannabis, the painkiller tramadol and around 50 bags of pink captagon pills in the capital’s security compound.

DAMASCUS: Syria’s new authorities torched a large stockpile of drugs on Wednesday, two security officials told AFP, including one million pills of the amphetamine-like stimulant captagon, whose industrial-scale production flourished under ousted president Bashar Assad.
“We found a large quantity of captagon, around one million pills,” said a member of the security forces, who asked to be identified only by his first name, Osama. An AFP journalist saw forces pour fuel over and set fire to a cache of cannabis, the painkiller tramadol and around 50 bags of pink captagon pills in the capital’s security compound.

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