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TIL about Captagon, an illegal drug primarily produced in Syria and shipped to the Gulf states. The scale of the Captagon market is estimated by some to be three times the combined trade of the Mexican cartels.
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TIL: Captagon Drug Trade Outpaces Mexican Cartels by 3× Damascus/Gulf Region, July 2025 — Today in “Today I Learned” (TIL) headlines: the Captagon trade—an illicit amphetamine-based stimulant almost exclusively produced in Syria—is now estimated to be worth up to $57 billion annually, making it three times larger than the combined operations of the Mexican drug cartels […]