{"id":15697,"date":"2024-12-13T15:08:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T15:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15697"},"modified":"2024-12-13T15:08:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T15:08:47","slug":"what-is-captagon-the-synthetic-stimulant-that-earned-billions-for-the-assad-regime-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15697","title":{"rendered":"What is Captagon, the synthetic stimulant that earned billions for the Assad regime in Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;On Sunday, just hours after the Islamist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/who-are-syrian-rebels-hts\/story?id=116571007\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group<\/a>, or HTS, captured Damascus and took power, its leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani stood up in front of a crowd of supporters inside the capital&#8217;s historic Umayyad Mosque and declared: &#8220;Syria has become the biggest producer of Captagon on Earth, and today, Syria is going to be purified by the grace of God.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The future remains uncertain when it comes to the powerful forces of a cartel economy driven by billions of dollars, high demand and a fragile transitional government.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/captagon-synthetic-stimulant-earned-billions-220420441.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/captagon-synthetic-stimulant-earned-billions-220420441.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;On Sunday, just hours after the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, or HTS, captured Damascus and took power, its leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani stood up in front of a crowd of supporters inside the capital&#8217;s historic Umayyad Mosque and declared: &#8220;Syria has become the biggest producer of Captagon on Earth, and today, Syria is going to be purified by the grace of God.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe future remains uncertain when it comes to the powerful forces of a cartel economy driven by billions of dollars, high demand and a fragile transitional government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/captagon-synthetic-stimulant-earned-billions-220420441.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[439,391,419],"class_list":["post-15697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-drugs","tag-middle-east","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15698,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697\/revisions\/15698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}