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Seem to be far ahead in the science, showing that medical marijuana actually helps these patients. >> yeah. they have done some of the earliest work in israel. its quite an amazing history with regard to their scientific discovery there. it was there in the early 1960s where they isolated some of the most important therapeutic compounds in cannabis, cbd and it tch, two main ones people think about. they have gotten to the point now where many clinical trials have been done. you go to some big ho...

They wanted a veterinary medication to treat her seizures. >> veterinary medication? >> for dogs because nothing was working for her. lets take a step back. a potential dog medicine. cannibis was considered so fringe. when you look at that is it irresponsible to provide this as an option. >> its a misnomer. a lot of people want to smoke pot to get high. when you are doing this medicinally in the case of this child, there strands of medical marijuana minus the thc. >> strains are very low in thc ...

There were no more options. everything had been tried. except cannabis. >> here is how scientist think it might work. >> marijuana is made up of thc, the part that makes you high, and cbd, also called cannabidiol. the cbd scientists think the electro and mechanical activity that quiet the activity to the brain to help seizures. >> for a long time the work on cannabis and epilepsy was inconclusive. it was only when they started separating it that they saw, yes, cbd seems to really stop seizures. ...

Something they call revolutionary. >> its greenhouse one. >> greenhouse one, yes. welcome to it. 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...

>> 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, 20 minutes this is where i can start to really feel. >> he is about to show me how the marijuana works. he has been ...

Been astronomical. $2,000, and not a penny of it covered by insurance. but then paige heard about the stanleys, the six brothers and their greenhouse of marijuana that is high in cbd. >> i said, oh, my goodness. he says i dont know what to do with it. were trying new things with it, but no one wants it. its not sellable. i said just dont touch that because we need that plant. >> at first they didnt want to take the risk of giving marijuana to such a young child. but then they met her. >> tell me...

Then she didnt have a seizure that night. >> so you sit there and look at your watch. >> yeah, i thought, this is crazy. >> then she didnt have the one the next day or the next day. i thought, she would have had a hundred by now. and i just -- i know, i just thought, this is insane. >> i remember how happy paige was. and it is 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 ...

>> we needed to try something else and, at that point in time, marijuana was that natural course of action to try. >> at home in colorado, searching for marijuana high in cbd, thats the ingredient some scientists think help seizures and low in thc. remember, she didnt want to get her daughter stoned. she found a small amount in the denver dispensary. she was surprised that the owner even wanted it. >> they said it was funny, nobody wants it. nobody wanted it, it didnt have any effect. >> paige p...

Thc and cbd decades ago. now the countrys ministry licensed 10,000 patients to use marijuana medicinally and has approved more than a dozen studies to treat illnesses like ptsd, pain, crohns disease, even cancer. >> hopefully this would prove to be the best medication. i really hope so. were not there yet. >> the answers might come from places like this. its a state-run nursing home outside of tel aviv. residents here are using marijuana for pain, loss of appetite, parkinsons disease, and dement...

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 electrivity to help quiet the activity in the brain that causes seizures. >> dr. julie ...