a lot of hot air. made. on. the idea as it is hundreds way to bring you more conservation. how do we make 2nd screen how can we protect our talents we can make a difference the ideas are meant to a series of global powers a v.w. . 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 is one almost universal truth when it comes to drugs but 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's up to him just 59 years to make that move but it's one that could trigger more research into cannabis is meant to signal 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 and nike pusan pink kush or delays but what's grown in these greenhouses near the danish town of

wooden 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 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 and he tried that and off the 20 minutes she just ups. and that was really what triggered me to look into this because i knew we could do some of the some of those we had in this climate we can transfer it to me it is all kind of 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 you can use both 'd in the tomatoes and just 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 will 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 veil need to undergo a series of tests before they reach pharmacy shelves or hospital patients. you 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 money and a 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 hosts it knows all too well she uses cannabis products to treat chronic pain sufferers and terminally ill patients it's because doctors not only denmark but in general they're conservative. and we are trained. 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 in 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 3 years ago. and it was from. my going to come today it's focused on its. it's fun to work it this essence like these are invaluable to aurora and other businesses that hope denmark's trail 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 not speed doesn't believe this is about to change we were among 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 that 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 waiting 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 the 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. on what you're hearing the scent is comforting and fresh but you know you when she

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 it was a huge showy. 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 the 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 catalyst now i'm already planning 40 hectares of my land with cannabis it's much more profitable than other crops. but were in china were 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 licens the whole process of growing and processing can assist. china wants to be a major player in the global cannabis market without producing a single gram of marijuana here is how the female cannabis flowers contain 2 main substances one this kind 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 the china does not want our.

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. 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 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 adviser 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 is that when all the decades of fighting against drugs the authorities and you know i have gained a lot of experience and built up a powerful anti-narcotics agency. michael huang's business is 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 the 0121 piece

in the tree 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 installed surveillance cameras in the production line so they can make sure the t.h.c. is destroyed. i will regulate your body understand that i mean this then the function of canopies 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 is a workaround in the official list of pharmaceutical substances there is something called hemp leaf extract and that is legal and many businesses haven't realized that yet but we decided to go ahead with it now i'm going to try that it will. it's a grey area and many c.b.d.

products are still to do in china the only permitted use for c.b.d. or hampel effects tracked 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. one see 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 grows 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 young 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 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 it's the raw material for cocaine . its leaves are softened in kerosene been filtered resulting in kolkata 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 olds 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

. by the time it's reached its destination market the cocaine now cost up to $60000.00 euros perky though. 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 euros 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 some 3000000 people a year die as a result of their alcohol consumption or. are you able to create advertising for alcoholic beverages with a clear conscience i am. this is a 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 to be different this. time has

been helping clients promote alcohol as an advertising executive for 30 years maybe 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 maybe i'm 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 when tobacco 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. never will it depends to

a certain extent on which brand we're working for. then he felt inclined some products are designed to appeal to a younger clientele in the office to votes 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 is 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 festivals another contentious issue. as it has been you be sure you are also attracting the attention of minors is going to heal. 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 message is reach every one of the festival season festivals and. that could be 16 to 30 year olds or 45 year olds depending on whoever chooses 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 models. that means not hiring models younger than 18 or any who look younger than that but there's still some gray 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.

he spends once or. she's $22.00 so she meets all the legal requirements for hiring influencers influence or. as i can see no moral reason for refusing to produce advertising for the alcohol industry. and we've saved a 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 to cause cancer in the last decade or so is cigarettes had been touted 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 isa 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 cigarettes. 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. we saw a 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 turkey and india here 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. from the time that i. started improving what.

doctors warn against downplaying the health risks linked to cigarettes. information. that the oncologist has criticised for years. but not so dangerous they need to be banned i asked katherine shannon of the german cancer research center. there are definitely fewer harmful substances in the paper of the cigarettes than into bacco smoke that's not difficult to bacco smoke is a cocktail of thousands of substances. biggest concern is that the long term health effects have yet to be studied. there 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. the government here has opted to ban online advertising for 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 the cigarettes is becoming more difficult and us to my question of whether there are any healthier than conventional smoking methods 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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this is t w news live from berlin still no deal britain and the european union just can't close the gap over british prime minister boris johnson and european commission president fund a line give both sides 4 more days for crunch trade talks but how big of a very great threat also coming up. germany's.