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>> heres how scientists think it might work. marijuana is made up of two ingredients, thc -- thats the psychoactive part that makes you high, and cbd, also called cannabidiol. they think it regulates electric activity to help quiet the activity in the brain that causes the seizures. >> dr. julie holland is the editor of the pot book, a complete guide to cannabis. >> for a long time the work on cannabis and epilepsy was sort of inconclusive. maybe it works. maybe it doesnt. they couldnt quite fig...

>> she didnt have seizures that day. then she didnt have a seizure that night. >> did you sit there and look at your watch? >> right. i thought this is crazy. and then she didnt have one the next day. and the next day. i thought that is -- she would have had 100 by now. i just -- i know. i just thought this is insane. >> i remember how happy paige was. its really working. i cant believe it. yeah, that was pretty amazing to hear. >> it had worked. but in just a couple of weeks the excitement was ...

Welcome to paradise. >> behind closed doors and under tight security we enter what the 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 tre...

The wilsons are finally getting marijuana in their hometown. once they pick up the cannabis at the dispensary, theyre confused. >> its 0.13% thc and 0.13% cbd? >> this isnt like picking up a standard prescription. there are no standard doses or federal guidelines. >> thats the one you want. >> they leave uncertain, not knowing exactly what theyre getting. and heres another problem, what they get at the dispensary are leaves that vivian cant use. >> how many grams are we going to use? >> its up t...

Ticking away, her parents decided to try marijuana. charlotte was just 5 years old. >> i need a card to be able to get the cannabis from a pharmacy. doctors have to prescribe it. >> you need two doctors in colorado to get the card for a juvenile or a child. it was hard. we were the first young child, and they said no. everyone said no, no, no, no. >> certainly her age played a role in my hesitance. >> dr. alan shackelford is a harvard-trained physician. he is also among a handful of doctors in c...

They stay they have a strain of cannabis low in psycho active thc and high this therapeutic cbd. after a year of fighting governor chris christie, and then months searching for doctors to prescribe cannabis, the wilsons are finally getting marijuana in their hometown. once they pick up the cannabis at the dispensary, theyre confused. >> its 0.13% thc and 0.13% cbd? >> this isnt like picking up a standard prescription. there are no standard doses or federal guidelines. >> thats the one you want. ...

>> did you name any of these? >> no, no. >> the names are quirky. but the owner says this is serious medicine. >> how hard is this to do? >> good luck. its tough. it requires persistence, patience and luck. >> this is josh stanley and his five brothers. theyre a handsome, well-educated tight nit group, all working together to make millions in colorados cannabis madness. how have things changed here? >> youre looking at a new crop. this is a never-ending cycle. >> the stanleys sell many different...

Prescriptions for medical marijuana. from the moment charlotte entered his office, he knew she was in trouble. while he was just examining her, she had two seizures. >> she had failed everything. there were no more options for her. everything had been tried, except cannabis. >> heres how scientists think it might work. marijuana is made up of two ingredients, thc -- thats the psychoactive part that makes you high, and cbd, also called cannabidiol. they think it regulates electric activity to hel...

Crohns disease and epilepsy. so 80% of this farm is now a high cbd, low thc. i mean, this is the exact opposite of what people think of when they think of marijuana. >> this wont get you high. >> you can set the whole hippie population of colorado loose on this plant and youre just going to be looking at a bunch of disappointing hippies. >> the stanleys are not concerned ant disappointing hippies. theyve seen this plant change lives. they have a brand new lab, manned with scientists who are turn...

>> 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. >> meet 19-year-old chaz moore. he uses many different strain...