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But lost. so they moved to colorado where its legal. desperate and determined, theyve become known as medical marijuana refugees. >> i came from arizona. >> we left a lot back in alabama. >> unfortunately he had to break the news to his folks were not coming back to texas. >> more than 100 families moving to get the marijuana they had seen in our last documentary. its called charlottes web, a plant that doesnt get you high but loaded with a chemical called cbd, which seems to help reduce seizure...

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...

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. >> they leave uncertain, not knowing exactly what theyre getting. and heres another problem, what they get at the dispensary are leaves that vivian can...

Famous for growing a less profitable plant called charlottes web. its low this thc but high in cbd, the key chemical doctors are using to treat everything from chronic pain to lupus, crohns disease and epilepsy. 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. >> theyve seen this plant change ...

To special receptors. when they are stimulated, they release dopamine that sends signals to nerve cells around your body and makes the user feel high. not all cannabis is going to get you stoned. thats because marijuana contains another chemical known as cbd. marijuana plants that have low thc and high cbd can work really well as a medicine and treat things like epilepsy. it works because the cbd chemical can quiet the electrical and chemical activity in the brain. i know this 3-year-old girl wh...

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. >> meet 19-year-old chaz mo...

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 overshadowed by panic. paige was runn...

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 seesh us. >> 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 figure it out. its only when they really started...

Searched for marijuana high in cbd. thats the ingredient some scientists think helps seizures and also low in thc. remember, she didnt want to get her daughter stoned. she found a small amount in a denver dispensary. the owner was surprised that anyone would even want it. >> they said its funny because no one buys this. that was the general consensus, no one wanted it. it didnt have any effect. >> paige paid $800 for a small bag and took it home. >> i had a friend that was starting a business ma...

Low in thc, the chemical that makes you high. but its loaded with another chemical, cbd. in the united states, the most common use for medical marijuana is for pain. another is to help with lack of appetite, cancer patients going through chemo therapy. im doubling down on this issue, im not backing down. im more convinced than ever that patients out there could benefit from this. its unjust to deny them this therapy. yes, we need to do more research to see what works and what doesnt and who migh...