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Worked. i too easily dismissed them as high visibility malingerers just looking to get high and i think once you start doing all this and really spending time investigating this, it, in my case, changed my views. >> okay. lets watch a little bit and then talk more. i want people to see it. >> 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 diagram. thats why hes talking this way. almost speaking in hiccups. like...

>> reporter: it was actually less than a minute. john, he had taken so many different medications, and, you know, he is one person, but hes emblematic of many more. so many of those medications he took werent working for him. he had been in the intensive care unit for a period of time. you heard hes taking this strain of marijuana thats high in cbd. theres two ingredients people talk about, thc, the stuff that can make you high, and cbd which is the more medicinal part. you can have a more medic...

Known as cannabis. and a couple of these important chemicals, thc, is the chemical that is sort of the psycho active chemical that gives people the high. there is also something known as cbd. you may not remember all this but there are several different of these cbd receptors throughout the body, including in the brain. our body makes some natural cbd receptors and it can help address seizure in the brain, pain in the body, and even as a potent anti-inflammatory to protect the brain after a head...

Admittedly, i put this in the op-ed. i dismissed them. i said these are high visibility malingers who are trying to get high. thats why i was so critical of medical marijuana in the past. there are legitimate patients who have legitimate problems who marijuana works for them and nothing else does. let me give you a quick example. >> i always have -- >> reporter: 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 di...

Seven minutes. how quickly do you expect this to work? >> within, like, the first five minutes. and im done. >> reporter: thats it. >> thats it. >> reporter: it was actually less than a minute. >> less than a minute, you can tell. >> yeah. this is a guy who had been in the icu. hes been seen by plenty of doctors. was on several different medications including narcotics, including muscle relax ants. some pretty high powered stuff. ultimately it was marijuana of a certain strain that worked for hi...

Dumpster. theres a third friend. 19-year-old american robel filipos. he wasnt indicted so far. apparently negotiations are going on with him. he was released on $100,000 bail and put under strict house arrest. brooke, these guys are facing some tough time if they get convicted. >> sounds like possibly 20 years on obstruction of justice. five years for the conspiracy counts for these two 19-year-olds. joe johns, thank you very much. weed. pot. reefer. whatever you want to call it. marijuana has...

>> reporter: meet 19-year-old chaz moore that uses different strains of marijuana, many high in cbd to treat his rare disorder of the diaphragm. >> my abs will lock up. >> reporter: thats why hes talking this way, almost speaking in hiccups like he cant catch his breath. this fluttering here, its annoying but becomes painful quickly i imagine. >> yeah, after like 15, 20 minutes, this is where i can start to really feel it. >> reporter: hes about to show me how the marijuana works. hes been convu...

Strains of marijuana, many high in cbd to treat his rare disorder of the diaphragm. >> my abs will lock up. >> reporter: thats why hes talking this way, almost speaking in hiccups like he cant catch his breath. this fluttering here, its annoying but becomes painful quickly i imagine. >> yeah, after like 15, 20 minutes, this is where i can start to really feel it. >> reporter: hes about to show me how the marijuana works. hes been convulsioning now for seven minutes. how quickly do you expect it ...

Part of those comments he was saying the potency of marijuana has gone up. that is true. probably over the last several years. i urge him to look at the scientific papers. i was looking at them in preparation for the show. the science is there. this isnt antidotal in the realm of conjecture anymore. for a long time we ignored the papers but this was a drug used for thousands of years. >> in your documentary, you get in to the effects of medical marijuana which sometimes can be dramatic. >> it re...

>> doctors in salt lake city immediately started intense chemotherapy and radiation. >> but told us that he probably wasnt going to make it, that he only had, like, an 8% chance to live 24 to 48 hours. >> the chemo made him violently ill. he was in intense pain. he suffered nerve damage in his legs and he went 25 days without eating. >> around the clock hes usually on liquid mohr ferphinmorphine. >> one chemical in marijuana is responsible for the efegts or the high and it combats nausea and the...