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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 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...

>> grown house one. welcome to it. welcome to paradise. >> behind closed doors and under tight security we enter what stanleys call the garden of eden. >> there is nothing like this in the world. 21% cbd and less than 1% thc. >> it took years of cross breeding plants to get to this point. >> instead of breeding up the thc, we have bread down the thc. and bread up to cbd. and people said, youre crazy. who is going to smoke that? >> why grow it, then? >> the stanleys also believed in cbds potentia...

>> 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 to smoke that? >> so why grow it t...

>> reporter: the compound is in the hemp. distracted from the plant and delivered to them through an oil. theres not a lot of research because under federal law marijuana is illegal. many scientists are increased about the possibility but remain cautious. >> just not evidence out there that tells us that its safe, its tolerable and its effective in epilepsy, so i think that research is really needed from that point of view so we can establish that and keep kids safe in the process as we move for...

And it happened to be the right direction. >> his miracle came from inside marijuana plants, from a gren house in central colorado. >> if someone were to try to steal all of this, they could smoke it and smoke it and smoke it and its not going to get them high. >> its a specially bred hemp with a strain containing a high level of compound known as cbd. heather started giving this compound to her son in an oil based form twice a day and the seizures stopped. >> he can play, he can engage, he laug...

>> 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 ...

>> she didnt have a seizure that day. 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 excite...

>> at home in colorado paige 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 th...

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 overshadowed by panic. paige was...

Stanleys call the garden of eden. >> there is nothing like this in the world. 21% cbd and less than 1% thc. >> it took years of cross breeding plants to get to this point. >> instead of breeding up the thc, we have bread down the thc. and bread up to cbd. and people said, youre crazy. who is going to smoke that? >> why grow it, then? >> 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 differen...