The European police agency, Europol, on Wednesday announced that it had successfully carried out its "largest ever operation" against synthetic drug producers, delivering a "massive blow" to organized crime in the bloc. The bust, which was coordinated in Poland and involved police from Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain, targeted some 24 industrial-scale labs and netted roughly 1,000 metric tons of chemicals used for making drugs such as MDMA and