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Potential as medicine. now the first drug is available by prescription here in the united states. so is this a turning point? it seems like a big deal. >> i think it is a big deal. typically, you have science comes first and then you see the cultural impact of that. you see the social impact. here you have had a situation where culturally, socially, legally at the state level people voting on using marijuana as medicine. here is how it happened. in 2013 i first realized the possibility of mariju...

>> its really expensive. and, i mean, thats outrageous in terms of how prohibitively expensive its going to be. we talked to the pharmaceutical company about this saying look, were going to create a situation where anyone who needs it. they will be able to get it and provide assistance and thats a problem and, you know, maybe as more people use this and other indications for this come about, the price will come down, but thats -- thats a big barrier still along with the fact that cbd is still co...

Realized the possibility of marijuana as a medicine when i met charlotte and her mother paige. >> its okay, baby. >> reporter: this is charlotte in the throes of a seizure. nothing made them stop, until they tried cbd, a compound found in cannabis. >> i measured it with a syringe and squirted it under her tongue. she didnt have a seizure that day, and then she didnt have a seizure that night. i just thought this is insane. >> reporter: it worked for charlotte, and so many other children. but at ...

Segments on pot and people right in and say drinking is legal. its no different than drinking, is it? >> well, definitely it different. again, regulating recreational marijuana, you know, joe mentioned, you know, issues as it relates to opioids. right? our big push in our company is cbd as opposed to putting people on opioids. if you can move people against recreational more towards the cbd side where you are not getting high that would be a plus. steve: thank you very much for a chat about in t...

Cold and jcpenney starting their hiring in june. if you can imagine that jcpenney will be holding a national hiring fair on october 16th to try to add more people to its list of employees. they are also offering part-time hourly workers will get one week of paid time off to try to get people to work for them. they are trying to get creative this year as they are trying to fill these open spots. rob: when i was a young one coca-cola added sherry. now something different. >> reporter: coca-cola co...

Had a of a trillion u.s. goods coming to china. coca-cola says its in the market for marijuana as the company shifts its company from soda to canny because infused health drinks. what more can you tell us about this one? >> i can guess it would have change your college dramatically. i dont know. but a report came out from canada saying coke was in serious talks. coke has not denied that story, but theyre looking at this market as evolving quickly. this is all about drinks being infused with cb...

>> this is charlottes web? >> right. >> what do you do with this here? >> we make the plant extract and cultivate it and grow it up until it flowers and harvest it dry to bring it back to the lab to do an extraction and turns into the charlottes web hemp oil. >> it is a hemp plant. >> the distinction that everybody makes between hemp and marijuana is important to understand. a botanist will tell you the plants are the same but according to the federal farm bill of 2014, a plant with less than .3...

Out the right strains to soothe the withdrawal symptoms which are very similar to the side effects of chemotherapy. no surprise because for decades studies have shown that both thc and cbd can help cancer patients in treatment. >> did it help you get off of the opiates? >> absolutely. >> 100%. you hear about cbd being able to help people with withdrawal type symptoms they get trying to come off of opiates. you have been here as you mentioned that cbd can help repair the brain. is that as promisi...

Opioids. and as youve just seen, that means the brain disease of addiction is never fully treated. which is why hurd started to focus on the cbd in cannabis, ton only treat the underlying pain but to also heal the brain. >> cbd normalize thats. so by normalizing glutemate you can restructure and normalize and restructure the impairments in the cellular level at the molecular level. >> helping get rid of the cravings that keeps taking someone back. >> exactly. exactly. >> and its not just the pai...

The government anticipates studies on everything from cancer to pain to epilepsy. and they want to have the marijuana ready to push science forward. >> if we dont have it, well have to grow it. >> dr. nora volkov is the director of the national institute on drug abuse. theyre the agency in charge of the field and responsible for dispensing marijuana for government-approved research. >> we try to anticipate what researchers are going to need, and so we have based on that expanded our production. ...