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Lebanon\u2019s Pablo Escobar?<\/strong> BBC News\u2019 Pop Up<\/a> has started to make edgy documentaries a la Vice News. One particularly interesting one that caught our eyes recently was about one of Lebanon\u2019s supposedly biggest narcotics kingpins. BBC says narcotics are grown in Lebanon\u2019s Beqaa Valley with impunity. \u201cBacked 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.\u201d The documentary also touches on how consumption of narcotics is regulated in the country (runtime 17:30).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lebanon\u2019s Pablo Escobar? BBC News\u2019 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\u2019s supposedly biggest narcotics kingpins. 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