Lebanon’s narcotics’ kingpin

Lebanon’s Pablo Escobar? BBC News’ Pop Up has started to make edgy documentaries a la Vice News. One particularly interesting one that caught our eyes recently was about one of Lebanon’s supposedly biggest narcotics kingpins. BBC says narcotics are grown in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley with impunity. “Backed by armed militiamen, the country's [redacted] lords have become untouchable. Benjamin Zand visits one of the biggest [redacted] lords, and finds out how the civil war in neighbouring Syria means the farms have been able to flourish.” The documentary also touches on how consumption of narcotics is regulated in the country (runtime 17:30).