as we take on the more i. learn all about the stories that matter to you. what ever. meet or mines. society has a complicated relationship with drugs cocaine or heroin use generally frowned upon by caffeine and alcohol are deemed mostly acceptable clearly the standard shifts depending on what we're talking about but there is one almost universal truth when it comes to drugs that there's money to be made from the business of drugs that's

our topic on today's edition of made. let's start with one drug whose image has undergone a major make over in the last year cannabis in fact just recently the united nations commission on narcotic drugs removed marijuana from its most dangerous drugs category now it's up in just 59 years to make that move but it's one that could trigger more research into cannabis is medicinal properties for this next story we take you to denmark where our reporter max sanda managed a rare visit to a cannabis production facility. and they have colorful names like you keep pink kush or tell a nice but what's grown in these greenhouses new the danish town of wooden's it won't end up in amsterdam coffee shops this is medicinal cannabis for an up and coming european market. it all started here just

a few greenhouses down the road much speed as a family business is scandinavia slogs producer of tomatoes and cucumbers now he's branched out into cannabis what drives him creating a product that can help people. for me personally was a personal story for a living your boy who had seizures and simply no miss him didn't help him and out of this race and his parents bought illegal cannabis. and he tried that and after 20 minutes she just ups. and that was we have what triggered me to look into this because i knew i could do some of the some of the notice we had in this climate we can transfer to milk it is all cannabis as well as it has decades of experience planting tomatoes in denmark's harsh climate he's channeling all this expertise into his new product on the climate on the way you made it here for those

who control all these things we really really good at controlling that's the same we can use both in the tomatoes and in this look at this in partnership with the canadian business aurora incorporated peasant founded the joint venture or rural nordic since then the mother company has acquired 100 percent of the shares. we are about to see what it's really like to grow medicine all cannabis here in denmark medical director mahayana news and takes us with her into the facility. the plants growing and processed here are not ready for market just hit the only to undergo a series of tests before they reach pharmacy shelves or hospital patients. to show that you are in control and you are able to control every single step in your productions so you are able to control your whole process and also trace back what you have done in your process if something goes wrong after roughly 2 and a half years of preparation aurora is just

a few steps away from being certified nielsen tells us. that makes around one of the 1st movers in this markets denmark offers fertile ground for this budding business a danish government trial program is making it possible for companies to grow sell and export medicinal cannabis but reservations remain and that's something dr tina haustus knows all too well she uses cannabis products to treat chronic pain sufferers and terminally ill patients it's because doctors not only don't mark but in general they're conservative. and we are trained. in evidence based medicine and the candidate says that night and space night clinical beast this means there is little knowledge from studies on medicinal cannabis most comes from one on one experience with patients like yeah. he's been suffering from severe headaches since a car accident now he travels here from sweden once

a month. so 2 years ago. and it was fun. my going to win today is focused on it's. it's fun to work to get to systems like these are invaluable to aurora and other businesses that hope denmark's trial program will be expanded or inspire similar schemes elsewhere in europe since market entry comes at a high price and laws differ across the continent competition is rare but let's be doesn't believe this is about to change. the pious so we set up offices in most european capitals to make sure that we also try to push. the market in the right direction it's still a long struggle about we see in france and u.k. the trial she missed out of now and actually the number of patients coming in a top team is accelerating quite fast. and this is what they've been preparing for

all along production capacities at this site are far from exhausted and then additional facility nearby is under construction ready to take on the european market. the dose makes the poison that's a saying attributed to paracelsus a 16th century physician noone as the father of toxicology but with cannabis it's the active ingredient that counts are we talking about t.h.c. or c.b.d. in china not knowing the difference can land you behind bars our correspondent mathias pentagon has this report. being drunk with your 3 dissent is comforting and fresh. when she smells you feel energized and when the wind blows from over there the air is just full of the scent of cannabis it's a very special fragrance. he

lives in a small village in you know on china's southwestern border province he's one of china's 1st cannabis farmers. the world market for can of a dial products is estimated at 1700000000 euros a year analysts expected to grow almost 20 fold over the next 10 years. the 1st year i planted 20 had tears but we've gradually increased the area for cannabis now i'm already planning 40 hectares of my land with cannabis it's much more profitable than other crops. but we're in china we're being const milking marijuana can get you a lifetime entry into a drug offenders database and possession of large amounts of hard drugs can get you executed. should feature. our country has

a very strict drug prohibition policy. which. the police and the n.t. narcotics agency closely monitoring licens the whole process of growing and processing cameras which. china wants to be a major player in the global cannabis market without producing a single gram of marijuana here's how the female cannabis flowers contain 2 main substances one this can of a dial or c b d c p d is what china wants it's believed to have medicinal benefits but it's not intoxicating the other is tetrahydrocannabinol or t.h.c. that's the one that gets you high and that china does not want. business is entirely legal as long as the only plants and government approved low

t.h.c. scenes and he can. only sell his crop to a licensed company. michael huang is an investor in cannabis products he's one of china's 1st cannabis entrepreneurs. people steal can see that kind of piece is some truck industry so you know the my family friends and even those legal in here and they told me some priest do not get involved business. china has a long and painful history with narcotic drugs in the 19th century britain forced china to open its borders to opium imports into your new none people still remember how heroin from the golden triangle flooded the province the region is still one of the world's major heroin suppliers and you non shares a long border with it. are running glee but not without a reason you none is now the 1st province in china to allow cannabis production. is

a former narcotics detective and now a top advisor to the government on drug policy. it's always since you none is on the drug border with the golden triangle the province was the frontline where drugs came into the country to get this on all the decades of fighting against drugs the authorities and you know have gained a lot of experience and built up a powerful anti narcotics agency. michael huang's business is an entirely under the control of that agency he distributes the seeds to the farmers and buys the harvest then his company extracts the c.b.d. from the crop we're on our way to his factory but he gets a message from the police telling him he's not allowed to bring a foreigner to his own factory so far china and i will governments do you want to want this industry to grow slowly and don't get too much attention from around the world. so that was the one.

outside the factory the authorities have built the police station. the officers monitor all wrong materials coming in and process goods going out the extraction of c.b.d. is the most sensitive step because it also yields a small amount of the forbidden substance t.h.c. . police have instant surveillance cameras in the production line so they can make sure the t.h.c. is destroyed. regulate your body understand that i mean this then the function that kind of peace and we also want to support the industry so actually even though we get this chippewa shorey procedure i mean why we have a really good relationship. most of michael wants output goes abroad but chinese customers are also slowly discovering c.b.d. products. cosmetics is one of the newly emerging companies in the market they make

lotions creams and face masks containing the soothing and anti inflammatory substance. but if you look for the term c.b.d. on their packaging you won't find it because officially c.b.d. does not exist in china. that the government has not fully open the market to these products so many companies don't dare to go into this business but we've discovered that there's a workaround in the official list of pharmaceutical substances there is something called hemp leaf extract and that is legal many businesses haven't realized that yet but we decided to go ahead with it no wonder that it will. it's a gray area and many c.b.d. products are still to do in china the only permitted use for c.b.d. or hemp leaf extract is in cosmetics it's use in food products and pharmaceuticals

is strictly prohibited but as c.b.d. blooms in other countries. chinese customers are also slowly catching on. long sea balance calculation is simple there's plenty of potential for growth in a country of 1400000000 even a small share of the market represents a large number of customers. while mary wanna grow as in social acceptability and even legality that change hasn't come for cocaine anyone who's seen popular television shows like norco's and el chapo is familiar with blood soaked tales of drug cartels made powerful by corruption and violence and by billions of dollars in profits here's a look at the anatomy of narco capitalism. how does the global cocaine trade work. bar was once the world's most famous drug lord. until his death in 1903 he

headed the notorious made a huge drug cartel. it was a huge supplier of cocaine to the u.s. but that was almost a modest operation compared to today's global complex of criminal gangs which supply $19000000.00 users worldwide. they produce more than $700.00 tons of cocaine a year with total estimated sales a 1000000000 euros. trade methods barely differ from the global trade in legal goods. they require manufacturing facilities or logistical network for distribution and a sales network to supply the drug to end consumers. the coca plant is cultivated in colombia bolivia and peru the raw material for cocaine in. its leaves are softened in kerosene than filtered resulting in coca paste. as many as 40 different chemicals are used to refine the substance into pure cocaine.

cocaine the estimated value. in the producer countries is $2500.00 euros a kilo that's 2 year old 50 grams. the finished product is transferred via brazil or mexico as well as southern and western africa and then smuggled primarily to north america and europe. it's carried in vehicles as varied as many subs aircraft containers on cargo ships. and couriers who smuggle smaller amounts across borders. logistical effort and the high risk factor drive the price up on top of that the price also has to cover losses for confiscations bribes for politicians and authorities as well as outlay for hit men. by the time it's reached its destination market the cocaine now cost up to $60000.00 euros.