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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 didnt have any more of that particu...

Then another. then another. >> 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 ...

Marijuana was that natural course of action to try. >> 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 want every even want it. >> they said its funny because no one buys this. that was the general consensus, that nobody wanted it. it didnt have any affect. >> pa...

As the sun was rising on the ancient city of jerusalem, the final leg of our journey was just beginning. >> there had been some great advances here, and im proud of that, obviously. >> dr. boas lev is with israels ministry of health. here they have pioneered marijuana research. they were the first to isolate 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...

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 they had seen it change lives be...

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 can cannibadiol. they think it regulates electricaltivity activity 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 epile...

Marijuana is made up of two ingredients, thc -- thats the psychoactive part that makes you high, and cbd, also called cannibadiol. they think it regulates electivity 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 it doesnt. they couldnt quite figure it out. its only when they really started separating...

>> 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...

>> reporter: it was actually less than a minute. >> john, he had taken so many different medications, only one person but emblematic of many mo more, and so many medications werent working and had been in the intensive care unit. scary stuff. hes taking a strain of marijuana, high in cbd. thc is the stuff psychoactive, can make you high and cbd,s which the more medicinal part. you can have a more medical part of this marijuana without getting the high. thats a lot of what chaz is doing. >> incre...

Only did marijuana work, it was the only thing that worked. so, yeah, i had a change of heart in large part because of this journey, john. i have seen how it can work with nothing else did. i want you to see chas moore. hes a 19-year-old with a condition. >> reporter: i meet 19-year-old chas 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. >> reporter: thats why hes talking this way. almost speaking in h...