Posted on 06/21/2023 4:20:43 AM PDT by FarCenter
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After becoming a major market, Saudi Arabia is hitting back, ending a moratorium on the death penalty for drug cases and launching a zealous crackdown.
The result is at least 20 executions for drug offences since last year, according to an AFP tally, and a sharp rise in arrests.
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While alcohol is illegal in the conservative country, it is also believed to be the world's biggest market for captagon, which is used by wealthy Saudis as a party pill and by workers to stay awake during long shifts.
While previous anti-drug campaigns targeted smuggled shipments, mainly from Syria and Lebanon, the latest initiative is zeroing in on dealers and users within the country.
Apparently to provide a deterrent, a nearly three-year moratorium on executions for drug crimes was scrapped last year. Saudi Arabia is one of the world's biggest users of capital punishment, executing 147 people in 2022.
"In the last year to two years, we have seen an uptick in internal arrests and the use of the death penalty (in drug cases)," said Caroline Rose of the New Lines Institute think tank.
The shift from border seizures to arrests of dealers is partly due to "a focus on security issues surrounding captagon and a recognition of just how deep some of these networks go", Rose told AFP.
The campaign is also aimed at keeping drugs out of the hands of Saudi youth, the drivers of an ambitious reform agenda to diversify the oil-dependent economy. Fifty-one percent of the 32.2 million population is under 30.
"Saudi Arabia is carrying out a huge economic project...and the youth are the main pillar of this project," said Sulaiman al-Oqaily, a Saudi political analyst.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
To bad we cant use the same tactics but there are too many higher ups who are involved in the money end
"Captagon was first manufactured in 1961 as an alternative to amphetamine and methamphetamine...No doubt the "Captagon" used by ISIS or ISI, and other extremist groups, to enhance their soldiers abilities today is far removed from the Captagon of the eighties. Instead of just two main ingredients, illegal manufacturing likely combines several highly addictive stimulants with compounding actions into one destructive little pill. This "new age" Captagon, as with any highly addictive substance, is likely to cause irreversible changes in brain circuitry that govern impulse control and judgement, taking away a person's ability to reason or think rationally."
Is it sad to say this is what is required to keep humans in line? One would think that given freedom, humans would use that freedom for good. But the exact opposite seems to be true.
America would be a better place if the death penalties were enforced in a timely manner.
Timely? Six months from date of sente4nce with one appeal allowed.
Election Fraud executions should take place within 90 days
“How can I get some of this? For a friend”
~ H. Biden
Note the attempt at journalism. Enforcing a drug law is now "conservative." Not religious in the sense of Islam. Not medically warranted in the sense of health. "Conservative." Another small volley in the war on language from France 24....
Heck, years back some news bilge even tried to sell Obama as "conservative."
"Barack Obama, conservative" -- in the Washington Post. 2019
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/11/22/barack-obama-conservative/
IIRC, Hitler’s Blitzkrieg was fueled by amphetamines.
Pervetin.
“Barack Obama, conservative” — in the Washington Post. 2019
They lie today.
Think of the first black Congressmen elected after the Civil War. Republicans. Forgotten with intent by today's Democrats.
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