How ‘poor man’s cocaine’ could enter the UK and enrich Syrian dictator’s regime

Elijah Glantz, a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), said that the UK could become part of a European smuggling route, but he believed it was unlikely that Captagon would take off as a drug of choice for Britons. “Captagon is a poor, unknown, cheap version of what we already have in the UK, so it’s not likely to be very competitive. But it’s possible it could be seized in or out of a port as part of a transhipment. That’s long been the MO; directing Captagon through an area with lower supply and demand to avoid red flags and risk registers,” he said.