https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/2f3548e2-1c36-45fe-bbab-4c741d4fea93 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This film by Swiss journalist, non-fiction author and film producer Mario Cortese, "The World is Yours" is an opioid drug awareness feature. The film traces poppies from grow fields in Thailand to heroin being sold in the streets of Germany and Los Angeles. Thailand; a part of the Golden Triangle along with Afghanistan have been top tier producers of opium since the 1950s. The film features portrayals of a number of notorious drug lords. The footage is accompanied by an original song written by Bob Barton including the title of the film encouraging viewers to stay sober. The film opens in Thailand with a spooky execution; bats hang upside down (:19), gun men aim (:50) and bats scatter as bullets ring out. Poppy flowers bloom in northern Thailand (3:19). German first responders swoop in on the scene of an overdose (1:44). Graffiti hangs on the wall of the apartment and the record spins (2:37). A pilot’s eye view of Thailand follows (2:43). Pinks, whites and reds dot the poppy field (3:09). A farmer splits open the seedpod (3:21). Armed men move through the jungle in Burma (Myanmar) (4:10). The troupe arrives at a clearing where the operation is based (4:55). The German overdosed man lay on his back in the hospital (5:08). His girlfriend waits in the lobby (5:15). An armed guard sits outside the hut (5:40). Traffickers work to harvest gum from the poppy plant (6:06). Bags of product are weighed (7:04). Packages are jammed into the back of a “King Jeans’ transport vehicle (7:09). In this case, the textile industry is used as a cover. The truck exits the lot (7:48). Combat erupts in the jungle (8:41). White smoke billows from the hut once used for heroin production (8:56). Traffic clogs city streets of Bangkok (9:06). A photograph of Khun Sa appears (10:06). The Thai army marches (10:11). A Thai politician discusses the difficulty the country was experiencing in reaching and charging Sa (10:16). The Burmese mountains follow (10:40). He notes it would be impossible to close the border between the two countries (10:51). Myanmar and Burma have been locked in a feud over drug trafficking for years. Within Bangkok's international airport (11:08), a traveler is searched for drugs (11:13). A camera is inspected (11:22). Confiscated illicit drugs are photographed (11:47). South Sepulveda Boulevard (12:12) in Los Angeles, California is mentioned as drugs flow over to other countries. The executive center of US based an import export company; who often worked with drug cartels, follows (12:25). The executive is interviewed on imported goods (12:42). He notes many of the cartels were in the fruit or meat trade (13:01) and compares the drug trade to the automobile industry. Klang Prem prison appears (13:26). A sign details Thai narcotics laws (13:55). The arc of the Politeama Theatre in Palermo, Sicily follows (14:22). Palermo has a seedy history with the Italian Mafia. A hit man targets a pair on the sidewalk (14:43). Palermo was a site of bombings and shootings related to the opium trade. Shots follow from the Port of Palermo (15:10). A cocaine farm in jungles of Bolivia appears (16:37). The Bolivian army races from a military vehicle (18:03). The illicit substance is mixed and sifted (18:30). The army advances on the farm (19:00). Bullets pop and members of the operation are arrested (19:05). Bags of cocaine are confiscated (19:58). Cocaine farmers pick through leaves of the plant (20:42). Carlos Lehder(21:00); the German Columbian drug lord was the co-founder of the Medellin cartel. On February 5th, 1987, Lehder was extradited to Florida to face trail (21:13). His partner, Carlos Gonzalo Rodriguez and (21:23) Pablo Escobar are photographed (21:28). Escobar's crashed Curtiss C 46 sits beneath Bahama’s waters (21:44). The ghetto of Columbia is filmed (21:56). Skyscrapers of New York appear (22:45). The headquarters of the New York DEA follows (23:04). Drug costs are discussed (23:37). Corruption of government officials and police help to jack the prices up (23:46). Lines are traced on a map of the substance's origins (24:13). Asystole appears on the monitor of the drug user in Germany (25:36). Packets of confiscated drugs are emptied into a river; the water runs white (26:12). 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