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>> 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 running out of marijuana and the dispensary di...

>> 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 treat many diseases. and...

Wife paige. >> its horrible seeing these videos when im deployed. >> reporter: it was his 5-year-old daughter charlotte seizing. she was having 300 seizures a week. each attack so severe it had the potential to kill her. they had already tried dozens of high-powered drugs. >> we needed to try something else, and at that point in time, marijuana was that natural course of action to try. >> reporter: at home in colorado, paige searched for marijuana high in cbd. thats the ingredient some scientist...

She wears an eye patch because seeing certain patterns brings on seizures. she has a rare form of epilepsy and it causes severe seizures on a daily basis. they can last up to an hour at times. she is on a special diet. has special medicine karks but her parents, especially her father, believes strongly that the only thing that will control her seizures is this special form of medical marijuana. high in something called cbd, low in thc, which is the agent that makes you high. now, the bottom line...

>> 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 affect. >> paige paid $800 for a small bag and took it home. >> i had a friend th...

Panic. paige was running out of marijuana and the dispensary didnt have any more of that particular strain. even if there was more, the monthly price tag would have been astronomical. $2,000, and not a penny of it covered by insurance. then paige heard about the stanleys. the six brothers and their green house of marijuana that is high in cbd. >> i said, oh my goodness. he said, i dont know what to do with it. were trying new things with it but no one wants it. its not saleable. i said, just -- ...

>> 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. its the cbd that modulates electrical activity to help quiet the activity in the brain that causes seizure. 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...

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 affect. >> paige paid $800 for a small bag and took it home. >> i had a friend that was starting a business ma...

Strain that is very specific for this high in cbd and low in thr. thats a crucial part of this mix as well. >> marcy, i want you to weigh in on this. you hear the news from the governor. where to you stand on all of this? >> we think its very important for the fda to be involved in this entire process. they are, in fact, our system upon which we make our medicines and distribute our medicines. theyre the ones that make sure we have safe medicines, dosages are adequate and they actually do what t...

The case of vivian, as in the case of charlotte, the existing medications simply did not work. for charlotte she was having 300 seizures a week despite being on seven different medications. they literally got to the point, brooke, where they wanted to compound a veterinary pill for her. thats certainly something the fda hasnt looked at either. but in her case thankfully for her, this high cbd strain of marijuana did really help control her seizures. marinol is not a good analog here. i think mar...