subscribe. documentary. society has a complicated relationship with drugs cocaine or heroin use generally frowned upon but caffeine and alcohol are deemed mostly acceptable clearly the standard shifts depending on what we're talking about but there's 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 years cannabis in fact just recently the united nations commission on narcotic drugs removed marijuana from its most dangerous drugs category now it took them just 59 years to make that move but it's one that could trigger more research into cannabis is medicine all properties for this next story we take you to denmark where our reporter max sanda managed a rare visit to a cannabis production facility. they have colorful names like. pink kush or delays but what's grown in these greenhouses near the danish town of wooden's it won't end up in amsterdam coffee shops this is medicinal cannabis for an up and coming here pin 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 of a living your boy who had seizures and simply the norm of is in didn't help him and out of this race and his parents bought illegal cannabis and and he tried that and after 20 minutes she just upped. and that was really 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 pietersen has decades of experience planting tomatoes in denmark's harsh climate he's channeling all this expertise into his new product and there's a limit on who you meet it's here

a lot to 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 all right incorporated peasant found at the joint venture or rural nordic since then the mother company has acquired 100 percent of the shares. we're about to see what it's really like to grow medicine ill cannabis here in denmark medical director marianna 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 our role 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 hawse of 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 mock but in general they're accustomed. to. training. in evidence based medicine and this is that like it in space like clinical beast this means there is little knowledge from studies on medicinal cannabis most comes from one on one experience with patients like linda he's been suffering from severe headaches since a car accident now he travels here from sweden once

a month. so 3 years ago. and it was from. my money going to come today it's funny it's. just it's been about working. this isthmus 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 must 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 but now we see in france and u.k. the trial she missed out of now and actually the number of patients coming in the 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 has this report. the scent is comforting and fresh. once you smell it 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 show it.

lives in a small village and you know on china's southwestern border province he's one of china's 1st cannabis farmers. the world market for a can of the dye of products is estimated at $1700000000.00 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 cattle. 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 caught smoking marijuana can get you a lifetime entry into a drug offenders database and possession of large amounts of hard drugs can get you executed. shushan feature. our country has

a very strict drug prohibition policy. which. the police and the n.t. narcotics agency closely monitoring license the whole process of growing and processing can exist 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 the 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 government approved low

t.h.c. scenes and he can only sell his crop to a licensed company. michael huang as an investor in cannabis products he's one of china's 1st cannabis entrepreneurs. people still can see their canopies is some truck industry so you know the my family friends and even those legal in here and they tell 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 really 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 adviser to the government on drug policy. since you none is on the drug border with the golden triangle the province was the frontline where drugs came into the country is that when all the decades of fighting against drugs the authorities in you know have gained a lot of experience and built up a powerful anti-narcotics agency. michael hwang'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 back. actory 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 our government steal one to want this industry to grow slowly and don't get too much attention from around the world . so that is 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 in stone surveillance cameras at the production line so they can make sure the t.h.c. is destroyed. i will regulate your body in the sense that i mean this then the function of canopies and we also want to is support the industry so actually even though we get this simple wire story 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

motions 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 one would say 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.p.d. or hampton effects tract is in cosmetics its use in food products and pharmaceuticals is strictly prohibited but as c.b.d.

blueness and 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 is 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 maybe drug cartel. that 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 $90000000.00 users worldwide. they produce more than $700.00 tons of cocaine a year with total estimated sales of 1000000000 euros. trade methods barely differ from the global trade in legal goods. they require manufacturing facilities a 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. 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's estimated value in the producer countries is $2500.00 euros a kilo that's 2 year olds 50 a gram of. 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. the 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 costs up to $60000.00 euros per tivo. but it still has some way to go until

it reaches the end consumer. in europe a network of wholesaler sells it to some contractors who then sell it on to small time dealers. to boost profit margins the cocaine is stretched or cut at every stage of the supply chain using baking powder pain medication even warming powder for animals. depending on the level of purity a kilo can now cost as much as 150000 euro's the war against the illegal cocaine trade is a losing battle it's merely a question of supply and demand. the failed war against drugs is one of the arguments for decriminalization the idea is that the regulated sale of drugs but decimate the illegal trade and bring in revenue how big a market would that be well look at one drug that's perfectly legal in many places alcohol sales are expected to reach $1.00 trillion dollars by 2024 but the

social costs of alcoholism have many wondering if there should be more rules governing alcohol like with regard to advertising i mean no one mentioned stuff some 3000000 people a year die as a result of their alcohol consumption in florida. are you able to create advertising for an alcoholic beverages with a clear conscience i am. this is. it's obviously tragic it's terrible but this is the fault of advertising if someone uses alcohol as a form of escape a way to escape reality or for entirely personal reasons reasons of fate is advertising responsible for that is the thing. this. time has been helping clients promote alcohol as an advertising executive for 30 years. the more advertising people see for alcoholic beverages the more they consume there are

indications that people do drink more that there is a connection does that ever trouble you. i'd love to see that study as far as i'm aware it's not the case that people drink more if they've seen more advertising. you know many are going to be let's compare it to smoking guns and. there are plenty of studies that show that neither the number of smokers or the amount they smoke dropped went to back all advertising was banned for public. the fact is the greater the restrictions on tobacco advertising in a country the lower the number of smokers. there's some criticism that advertising tends to target younger people because they'll continue to consume alcoholic beverages for the rest of their lives but. you know it will it depends to a certain extent on which brand we're working for. some products are designed to

appeal to a younger clientele in india festivals and the like those who go to festivals and carnivals people who go out together for the evening once. regulations prohibit the advertising industry from encouraging excessive alcohol consumption. we would never do that anyway and every responsible producer of alcoholic beverages sticks to that rule there are exceptions no doubt about it but the advertising industry's regulatory council reacts quickly and it goes away very very quickly but there are indeed some black sheep just the drinks industry often sponsors music festival another contentious issue. because you be sure you are also attracting the attention of minors is going to heal she said. no of course we can't be sure of that and something on the 1st of its name. and when i handle the sponsoring at

a festival my messages reach everyone at the festival in festivals and. that could be 16 to 30 year olds or 45 year olds depending on whoever choose to attend the economy also i can't rule it out but i can ensure our message is not specifically aimed at them by making the appropriate choice of model is. that means not hiring models younger than 18 or any who look younger than that but there's still some grey area this woman could be under-age but she still appears on an instagram account generated by logan stein's agency. that shouldn't happen if you found an example of someone who looks under-age on a post for any of our agencies clients i'd be extremely surprised because. it's once once a. she's $22.00 so she meets all the legal requirements for hiring influencers

influence. as i can see no moral reason for refusing to produce advertising for the alcohol industry. and we've saved the one drug for last it's so common it's so easy to forget how dangerous it actually is the cigarette tobacco smoke contains more than $7000.00 chemicals including 70 known to cause cancer in the last decade or so is cigarettes have been talented as a less damaging way to smoke but doubts are growing. that was my 1st a cigarette and as a nonsmoker i have to say it didn't taste bad atoll mango flavor but r.t.c. carets any healthier than the conventional options. and how big is the industry. if you believe the commercials you can have all the fun of smoking without any of

the risks. the marketing strategy initially paid off the demand for each cigarette . grew rapidly. in germany sales increased 5 fold from 18000000 euros in 2012 to 550000000 just 6 years later but since last year sales have dropped off significantly that's when it emerged that dozens of people have died in the u.s. and canada after using cigarettes for the industry the deaths posed a major challenge. 'd or drop in sales of 5060 or 70 percent among some retailers because of the concern among customers. studies by u.s. health authorities suggested many of the deaths were linked to vaporing oils containing t.h.c. the psycho active ingredient in cannabis so called the joint questions remain but

it's still a lucrative industry the united states is the biggest market with sales set to reach 5 and a half 1000000000 euros this year the u.k. is in 2nd place and germany is set to reach 876000000 but not everywhere is open for business the cigarettes abandoned in 41 countries including brazil and india here the particularly strict those caught selling vaporing devices can face up to one year in prison the government says it's just trying to protect young people from getting hooked on a new form of smoking but say the decision makes no sense. and then says. started improving what. doctors warn against downplaying the health risks linked to cigarettes.

information. that the oncologist has criticised for years. but lonnie cigarettes so dangerous they need to be banned i asked katz and shannon of the german cancer research center. there are definitely fewer harmful substances in the paper these cigarettes than into bacco smoke that's not difficult to bacco smoke is a cocktail of thousands of substances. her biggest concern is that the long term health effects have yet to be studied. this is what happens if you use these products several times a day over the course of months and years and we just don't know that yet. but one thing's clear the choice of sweet tasty flavors could encourage young

people in particular to take up the habit and so germany is among those toughening up it's. the government here has opted to ban online advertising for each cigarettes starting next year. retailers fear that could hit the industry haunt. from 2024 billboard advertising will be banned too so you won't see posters or anything anywhere and we think that's a big mistake. marketing cigarettes is becoming more difficult world wide and us to my question of whether there are any healthier than conventional smoking methods there's no real clarity. especially since i still don't know the long term health effects one thing at least there aren't any cigarette butts but there's still not for me i'd rather remain a nonsmoker. but sometimes making healthier choices

doesn't come easy the struggle against. addiction is real reach out and talk to someone there's help to be found and that's it for made this week thanks for watching and stay safe.

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she says you don't really use life from growing a raising the alarm german chancellor angela merkel says people need to make sacrifices to slow a 2nd wave of covert 19 in a rare emotional appeal miracle warns the country is it a bleak tipping point she's urging the public to accept limits that will save lives in the florida bars and also ahead coming clean after calls for more transparent recording turkey feels it's for one of our situation is much worse than previously thought.

thank you so much for your company everyone german shells the anglo american all is known for being calm under pressure a crisis manager or today merkel showed another side of her we rarely get to see when she made an impassioned plea for tougher restrictions to bring down the country's high coronavirus numbers on germany's death toll rather from covert 1000 has now hit a record daily high 590 that's more than 20000 new infections addressing the german parliament earlier merkel revealed the depth of her concern for the nation. bungle americal has spoken in parliament on countless occasions but this time was different she framed the decisions now facing germany as a matter of life and death in one of the most impassioned speeches of her life there are 14 days to go on to christmas 14 days we have to give a role to ensure that we don't end up back in exponential growth if we have too

much contact with others before christmas and then it turns out to be the very last christmas with our grandparents then this will be a terrible failure. medical's message it's time to act shops are still open and even some traditional christmas stands a serving mulled wine out on the streets merkel says this has to change. so how does how does deceive i know how much love gets poured into those christmas stands and i'm sorry from the bottom of my heart but if we have to pay the price of $590.00 people dying every day that's just not acceptable in my eyes and we must take action and. accept. this i mean this is a. miracle also condemned the protest movements casting doubt on the science behind the so-called lockdown light currently in place she made an unusually personal reference to her background as a scientist and her earlier years living under

a regime with no respect for the truth to that university nice gemini i decided to study physics i probably would not have done that if i had lived in the west i did it because i realized that many things could be undermined but not gravity or to speed of light other scientific i was for medical the facts are clear a tighter lockdown is needed right now her next challenge is to persuade not only parliament but also the german people and the only important leaders of each german state without their consent tougher actions won't be possible but if today's speech is anything to go by merkel is ready to put all her political power on the line. of use a chief political correspondent and a crane follow that speech in the german bundestag just how unusual is it for the chancellor to make such an emotional appeal. it's unusual and

i think it was prompted by her very real very urgent concern after all she is a scientist and she understands the data and secondly perhaps it was a response to a jab that had been made by the speaker before her the leader of the right wing the party who called on the chancellor to quote unquote get out of her ivory tower. and trust the citizens with the facts so in her appeal the chancellor. listed a whole set of facts that show the very disturbing developments both in infection rates in the death rate and in the shrinking of intensive care capacity in this country and then she said i believe in the power of reason and of science and she cited the recommendations of germany's council of scientific experts the lay opal diena council which said yesterday that the country needs much stricter rules going up to perhaps even an extended christmas vacation where shops would be closed and

social gatherings much more strictly limited so this was the mix the sober earnest real ism and almost maternal and courage meant and the urging that we often saw from the chancellor during the 1st wave of the pandemic and that in fact makes her crisis communication when she doesn't gauge a net so effective as so much on the line for the chancellor chancellor merkel has many demands on her at the moment doesn't she. absolutely she will be heading from berlin to brussels to head what is perhaps one of the most important e.u. meetings of her entire time in office germany is currently the president of the e.u. council it's faced both with a still unsettled breck's it and the question of the trade agreement whether the e.u. and britain and britain can come to terms on a trade agreement plus the 7 year budget for the e.u.

is being held up by poland and hungary which refuse to accept a rule of law clause so that in turn both determines the amount of money the e.u. would have at its disposal next year and even to terms whether the e.u. can begin to meet its climate goals because these 2 countries are also holding up those all of that in america's hands over the next 2 days so she's got a lot of skin in the game germany is also considering taking on a sizable new debt to help aid the economy how is the chancellor justifying. indeed today's debate here at the bundestag was a debate about to the next german federal budget which would see the country take on the socket 2nd highest level of debt ever $180000000000.00 euros now she said she realizes this is a massive some and that it is a burden on future generations that it will be paid back and she said the

government has a schedule for that repayment and she said she also had heard other parties appealing that that money needs to be wisely used for a future that will truly take this country further so she listed a whole area whole different number of areas where there will be significant investment ranging from artificial intelligence to the health care system to new renewable forms of energy and said that she intends to make absolutely sure that this debt is put to good use did have news chief political correspondent linda crane reporting thank you and it now appears that the european union standoff over its 7 year 2.2 trillion euro budget may have been resolved poland and hungary were standing in the way but seem to have come to a preliminary agreement with germany on the future spending plan that's according to the polish government and germany incidentally currently holds the e.u.

council presidency while the 2 eastern member states had previously blocked the long term budget and cologne of virus recovery find the countries disagreed with a rule that funding could be withheld if member states did not respect of law and democratic standards some skeptical e.u. states including the netherlands will want to review today's deal. turn our attention back to work over at 19 turkey has poured in now more than 33000 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours a long while that's one of the highest daily counts in the world after months of pressure by health experts and opposition politicians the government has changed the way it purports cases and that's part of a light a much worse situation than previously thought of course when you leon filed this report. recently it was actually it was a celebrating her birthday she turns a 2 day or 2 biggest wishes harry potter cake and meeting her best friends.

the latter is more difficult to organize since trick to coronavirus measures have come into force in turkey young people under the age of 20 are only allowed to leave their homes for 3 hours a day. i know that like i used to be able to go outside whenever i wanted it that was much better but i also miss school now everything is done why assume and it's so annoying they are ok i mean you know he has his mother is trying to organize life as best as she can between work and curfew she's often surprised how quickly the children have adapted to the difficult situation. to declare musky you don't know you know the kids where their math without complaining even when they're playing they got used to it only when we look at old photos of the do we notice

that the masts weren't always that if you're making me believe you're going to go all the. curfews for children are not the only new anti coronavirus rule in tokyo those older than 65 can also only go outside at certain times public transportation is forbidden for young and old people and on weekends everyone. with few exceptions has to stay at home. it looks pretty bleak these days in istanbul's usually very busy neighborhoods restaurants bars many shops closed. until recently the turkish government only publish the number of covered 19 patients showing clear symptoms and that's why many people here thought turkey was surviving the crisis relatively well but now the authorities have started to release data on the number of all new infections every day and many are realizing turkey is one of the worst affected

countries in the world. the government now reports about $30000.00 new infections per day. many of us are angry about how the government is managing the crisis but there's nothing we can do. the government is concerned with its reputation they want to look good that is why there is no transparency almost publishing the need to but they should have informed people much better right from the beginning then everyone would have known what to expect and how to act if you could read it. and record in their deals with many covered 19 patients he's a family doctor and belongs to the turkish medical association he says the authorities are still hiding the true extent of the crisis. we still have a lot more cases than the government says according to our estimates we have about 50260000 new infections per day our doctors and hospitals are at the absolute

limit we have to urgently take radical countermeasures. he has things the current restrictions are already plenty tough parties over the kids have to go back inside next year she hopes for a birthday with out the corona. dorris was. next to mount everest on the border between china and the polish already the world's highest peak but now it's even taller officially that is at least up to now the 2 countries that differed on whether to include the snow cap on top of the mountain in the measurements but after both countries sent teams of surveyors they finally reached an agreement and in years of defeat. chum a long saga mata mt everest the world's highest peak is known by several names and

now it's reaching even greater heights to be used to. charge. the world. is 1848.86 meters. that's 86 centimeters higher than was previously recorded one of the 7 natural wonders of the world ever straddles both nepal and china but the 2 countries have long disagreed on its height so each sent out teams of surveyors to scale the summit the multi-year effort to measure the legendary mountain wasn't easy teams endure it extreme weather conditions and a strenuous climb to come to calculations that both katmandu and beijing can now agree. that we have to respect anything that becomes bigger the encrease and height is a source of huge prize for nepal and her people so it's

a big deal. pride comes from conquering the mountain but also from keeping the quest local. here on the table in the past measurement of the mountain all the instruments and equipment used by china were imported from abroad but this time china used its own equipment and withstood the test of the extremely harsh environment there were concerns of the 2015 earthquake that killed nearly 9000 people had also caused the mountain to shrink but those fears are gone at 8848.806 meters it stands even taller than previously imagined. of our top story this hour in an address to parliament. and it for holiday measures as foreign of iris cases. failed to drop germany's death toll from becoming a teen has hit a regular daily high a $598.00 leaders are considering

a strict law down to the festive season. their washing need every new stick for their space this news is up next with rabat some iraq after all this year thanks so much for spending every day with us. we know that this is a scary time for the coronavirus is changing the world changing our lives so please take care of yourself a good distance wash your hands if you can date at how we're d.w.b. for here.