the tip of drug trafficking in Syria? | EUROtoday

Ln December 8, the victory speech of Abu Mohammed al-Joulani, the commander of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTC, Levant Liberation Organization), resonated below the huge ceiling of the good Umayyad mosque in Damascus. “He has sowed sectarianism and captagonism,” thunders Syria’s new strongman, talking of Bashar al-Assad. The fall of the Assad dictatorship has certainly uncovered the underbelly of a veritable narco-state. The economic system of the Syrian regime, hit by worldwide sanctions since 2011, was based mostly on the commercial manufacturing and export, particularly to the Gulf nations, of this artificial drug which takes the type of small yellow or white tablets.

Fenetylline, its scientific title, stimulates focus and efficiency…