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When humans are forced to be cogs in a machine—be it a war machine, a workplace machine, or a school machine—we need to become more machinelike, which can be expedited by some psychostimulant drugs. Commonly used legal psychostimulants are caffeine, nicotine, methylphenidate (including Ritalin) amphetamine (including Adderall), and methamphetamine, all of which may help us better attend to boring and unpleasant tasks.

(MEE) — Rebels in southern Syria seized – then destroyed – $1.4m worth of drugs while conducting an operation against the Islamic State (IS) group, the US-led coalition backing them said on Monday. According to the coalition, the narcotics were captured on 31 May by Maghawir al-Thawra, a rebel group trained by the United States and Jordan, […]

Lebanese customs officers display confiscated drugs of Captagon pills found in a bus, at Beirut Port, in Lebanon in 2007. (AP/Ahmad Omar)
French customs officials said on Tuesday that they had intercepted 135kg of Captagon, dubbed the “jihadist drug”, at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport this year.
Captagon, a type of amphetamine, is one of the most commonly used drugs among fighters in the Syrian war.

Both legal and illegal drugs are polluting streams in and around at least 1 major U.S. city, a new study reveals. This includes amphetamines, which are biologically active and highly addictive. [1]
The pollution comes at a high cost, ecologically. Areas in some streams have high enough concentrations of amphetamines to alter the bottom of the aquatic food chain.
Study author Sylvia Lee said:

The drug is called Captagon, and it's being used by all sides of the Syrian conflict.
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The drug, popular with Jihadists, may have been destined for Syria.The post Saudi Prince Arrested for Trying to Smuggle Two Tons of Amphetamines on Jet appeared first on The Anti-Media.

Harvard researchers have recently found an untested, unapproved stimulant lurking in numerous herbal weight-loss and workout supplements sold across the nation.

Scientists from the Harvard Medical School have called on the FDA this week to alert the public about a substance showing up in certain categories of dietary supplements. Known as beta-methylphenylethylamine (BMPEA) this organic compound is a positional isomer of the class of drugs known as amphetamines. It was first isolated in the 1930’s, but its safety in humans has never been studied.