BALADI NEWS
Hezbollah's drug trade came to surface in Damascus suburbs as complaints mount over the spread of drugs inside the secondary schools, local news site reported.
Captagon narcotic pills have become a real danger threatening teenagers of the western suburbs Damascus and Wadi Barada villages that adjacent to the Lebanese border, according to the Capital Voice website.
Hezbollah has since capturing Qusayr in 2013 cut down trees and turned agricultural property into tobacco and cannabis farms, locals who were forced out of the region told Asharq Al-Awsat in November 2018.
US reports say that 30 percent of Hezbollah’s income is generated from the drug trade throughout the world.
Source: Zaman Al-Wasl.