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To ak-47 to green crack. >> 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 sta...

Are using to treat everything, from chronic pain to lupus, to 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. ...

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. >> 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 a...

Now they are some of colorados biggest growers and dispensary owners. they produce up to 600 pounds of medical marijuana a year, and much of that marijuana is high in thc. but here on their remote farm at this undisclosed location in the mountains -- >> it takes a lot of plants. were allowed to grow six per patient. >> they have been growing something different. something they call revolutionary. >> its greenhouse one. >> greenhouse one, yes. welcome to it. welcome to paradise. >> behind closed ...

>> 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...

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 strains of marijuana. many of them high in cbd to treat his rare disorder of the diaphragm. >> my abs lock up. >> thats why he is talking this way, almost speaking in hiccups, like he cant catch his breath. its called myoclonus diaphragmatic flutter. >> it becomes painful. pretty quickly i imagine. >> yeah. >> after, like, 15,...

>> 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...

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 turning their plants into medicin...

Cbd, cannabidiol. remember that name. its the key chemical doctors are using to treat everything, from chronic pain to lupus, to 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 concern...