Bashar al-Assad's Secret $50 Billion Dollar Drug Empire

#charliedogwood #history DISCORD:   / discord   Hello and welcome to another history documentary by Charlie Dogwood. That's me. Captagon is a substance you might have heard of before. As it turns out, a very significant portion of the global supply up until 2024 was created by Bashar al-Assad and stage managed by his younger brother Maher al-Assad. Together they made billions for their Syrian war machine but the people of Syria never saw a dime. They even roped in Lebanese gangsters like Muhammad Hassan Daqqou and Nouh Zaiter. And according to some sources, the industry may have been up to 50 billion dollars in revenue yearly. A History Documentary in the Storyteller style by Charlie Dogwood, 2025 Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:52 Captagon's Early Days 3:19 Ba'athist Syria 4:44 Bashar al-Assad, Hezbollah, and Captagon 6:48 The Syrian Civil War Begins 8:07 The Syrian-Lebanese Captagon Connection 10:10 The Captagon Golden Age of Syria 16:13 It all comes crumbling down 20:01 Outro MUSIC CREDITS: younoise - Drama Strings Jimena Contreras - Alpha Mission Anno Domini Beats - Schizo Audio Hertz - World War Outerspace Quincas Moreira - Desert Planet MY LINKS: Main Channel: ‪@CharlesDogwood‬ VOD Channel: ‪@Charlie_Dogwood_Games‬ 2nd Channel: ‪@People.OnEarth‬ Japanese Channel:    / @the_rui_channel   Twitch:   / charlie_dogwood   Patreon: patreon.com/CharlieDogwood Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/charliedogwood