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The same way. the third thing i find most interesting and something i learned here, ana, is that when your brain section posed to opioids, within a few days the brain is changed. theres a part of the brain actually affected by that and makes it very difficult for you to use good judgment, to have good decision-making. makes it very difficult for you to just say no. >> thats why it has such a powerful hook? >> thats the addiction part of it, and no matter what, you continue taking opioids, that p...

Now. good morning. >> good morning. >> lets start here with this is the fourth installment of this series and your reporting on this topic. obviously a lot has changed. what has changed as youve reported over the years? >> i think one of the big changes happening now is that five years ago we introduced you to patients who had this type of epilepsy that was not treatable with current medications. then they got significant relief with cbd, a component of cannabis. these were young children. every...

Ability to crave your desire for opioids. you no longer have the ability to just say no. its not really within your power anymore. cbd, again, this component of cannabis, can help heal that part of the brain. >> youve written this letter to the attorney general jeff sessions in which you offer the science in your reporting over the years. but you also write in the letter that "i changed my mind, and im certain you can, as well, mr. sessions. theres medical and moral imperative to reschedule cann...

And i pause a little bit because there is a lot in that question. something i thought about a lot. it is still an illegal substance. so me as a doctor saying this illegal substance federally could be used to replace one of the biggest selling federally approved drugs in history, but i think were there. it can treat pain, number one. number two, it can also treat the withdrawal symptoms people have from opoids. much like chemotherapy in cancer patients, these are the same symptoms and can in a ba...

Alysin, while making this documentary is that opioids change your brain. they do it quickly. thats what people mean when they say its a brain disease. it changes a very specific part of the brain. if you continue to take opioids, that part of your brain doesnt heal. research now shows that cbd, a component of cannibis, can treat that part of the brain. the underlying disease that is fueling the addiction. >> i didnt know it was reversible. >> i dont know it was either. this is research that is h...

That oup yopioids can not. 115 people die a day of opioid overdoses, nobody has died of cannabis overdose. youll see that cbd, a component of cannabis, can help heal the addicts brain. i wanted the attorney general to know if you were going to go into a lab to try and design something to help us get out of this opioid epidemic, it might look like cannabis. >> sanjay, thank you so much. >> brooke, thank you. >> coming up next, three white police officers defend the arrest of a black woman in an a...

>> right now, we make our whole plant extract with the plant. we cultivate it in the field. we grow it until it flowers. we harvest it dry and bring it back to the lab to do an extraction on it that turns into our charlottes web oil. >> would you call that a marijuana plant or a hemp plant? >> a hemp plant. >> reporter: distinction that the stanley brothers and everyone that works for them makes between hemp and marijuana is important to understand. a botanist would tell you the plants are the s...

Marijuana. >> is he blowing the line between recreational and medicinal use? >> again, yes, absolutely. even our studies even if you even take animals and give them tfc, they show greater sensitivity to opioids. but if you give them cvd, the one used for treating kids with epilepsy, for example, they show a reduction in the opioid int e intake. and thats the cbd brought to trial that indeed even in human users it does seem to increase what is associated with addiction. it is a blurring of the li...

>> what do you do with this heart? >> right now, we make our whole plant extract with the plant. we cultivate it in the field. we grow it until it flowers. we harvest it dry and bring it back to the lab to do an extraction on it that turns into our charlottes web hemp oil. >> would you call that a marijuana plant or a hemp plant? >> a hemp plant. >> reporter: distinction that the stanley brothers and everyone that works for them makes between hemp and marijuana is important to understand. a bota...

Stanleys call the garden of eden. >> theres nothing like this in the world. >> this plant is 21% cbd and less than 1% thc. >> it took years of crossbreeding plants to get to this point. >> instead of breeding up the thc weve bred down the thc and bred up the cbd, and people said, youre crazy. you know, who is going to smoke that? >> so why grow it then? well, the stanleys also believed in cbds potential to treat many diseases. and they had seen it change lives before. >> i always had two strains...