The Jossor Research Center revealed earlier this year that Syria has 14 factories for the production of captagon pills, 13 centers for the production of the drug "Crystal Meth", 23 factories and farms for the production of cannabis (Indian hemp).

According to the study, the goals of drug production and smuggling include covering expenses of armed groups in various areas of control, mainly those of the regime and Iran, as well as exerting pressure on Jordan through the use of drugs as a means of normalizing customs relations.

A New York Times study found that Syria's drug economy is estimated at $ 16 billion a year, three times the 2022 budget of the Assad militia government, while analyzes reported by the Center for Surgery and Research (COAR) concluded that Europe and the eastern part of The Middle East and North Africa confiscated at least 173 million captagon bullets and 12.1 tons of cannabis exported from Syria in 2020, and estimated the market value of this amount confiscated at about $ 3.46 billion.