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Leading her back to cannabis, but jays neurologist was initially reluctant to even consider it. >> he was very worried that if he helped us get a license by prescribing it that if it ever got out that he was prescribing pot, that was going to look very bad for him. >> now remember, it was 2008, barely a dozen states legalized medicinal cannabis, federally it was still illegal, and the thought of giving it to a child, unimaginable. but they were lucky, they lived in rhode island where cannabis wa...

With your kid, you are drugging your kid. >> ironic. even hypocritical she said, because the medications that were prescribed for jay were stronger than cannabis. >> they were essentially, tranquilizers, they are kind of a chemical lobotomy. >> like the zartlers, marie tried all the conventional medicine to help her son, and none of it worked and it was brutal. >> as soon as he got up, he would start to scream, whale and as a person, he didnt want to be touched. he had a lot of aggressions. he w...

Strain or a particular dosage. >> i am a big guidelines person, so not having a protocol was probably the most difficult part for me, because what am i doing? >> so what marie decided to do, make herself the guinea pig. she would try different strains and doses first, and then if she felt okay she would give them to her son. >> this is my diary -- >> she shared a journal entry from one of the earlier days. >> i feel abject joy and jay can feel it, too. >> wow. >> how weird and random. and this i...

Would be pretty happy about that. >> often time the headline is my kid is taking a cannabis drug, and some people would say, i cant believe you did that? >> i would be, i am trying to find something that will help my child because at the end of the day, thats my child and i am thinking for the future, for him. >> thats what we heard again and again. maribel and carlos -- >> these look so nice. >> marie and jay. >> there we go. >> the zartlers and kara. >> i remember them being desperate and in n...

Medicine. >> this is jasons earlier card where -- >> marie is one of those parent pioneers who has been posting and sharing what has worked for jay over the years, as one of the youngest people with a legal medicare marijuana card, marie and jay were able to try all sorts of strains and document it all. >> he has been given a ton of cannabis. one cookies, two cookies. >> but there was a problem, because once they found something that works they worried it would not be supplied. this is a plant d...

Accepted as a medicine, but thc, the psychoactive part of the plant that gets you high or stoned, he said. he thought that thc might help calm kara. they were willing to try anything, but their home state of texas has the most restrictive cannabis laws. >> its illegal. it has to be illegal for a reason. >> it took us a long time to get over the stigma. >> a stigma that this woman also understands all too well. >> when we first started nobody thought of using cannabis in a pediatric setting. >> a...

Because of the insect infestation, we just saw so completely how it was helping him. >> if this all sounds audacious, overwhelming even, it is. just because it worked for jay does not mean it would necessarily work for another child, no matter how similar they are. theres not yet the data. there arent the studies as of now. there isnt the confidence to plunge forward. >> its not a good idea to run out and buy it and just try to use it on your own. its not clear what dose is the best dose if it d...

Be reasonable, how he stopped being aggressive. >> reporter: changes that have continued long after ezra stopped taking the study drugs almost a year ago. >> he has had no regression whatsoever. i dont think its -- its a cure. i think its just going to make him -- make it easier for him. you know? easier for him to live. >> reporter: interestingly, these were the same kind of long-term changes jay also experienced. >> i dont know if i would use the word heal but its more like helping him become ...

Even hypocritical she said, because the medications that were prescribed for jay were stronger than cannabis. >> they were essentially, tra tranquilizers, they are kind of a chemical lobotomy. >> like the zartlers, marie tried all the conventional medicine to help her son, and none of it worked and it was brutal. >> as soon as he got home, he would start to scream, whale and as a person, he didnt want to be touched. he had a lot of aggressions. he would attack us all the time. >> the college pro...

But jays neurologist was initially reluctant to even consider it. >> he was very worried that if he helped us get a license by prescribing it that if it ever got out that he was prescribing pot, that was going to look very bad for him. >> i remember, it was 2008, barely a dozen states legalized medicinal cannabis, afederally t was still illegal, and the thought of giving it to a child, unimaginable. but they were lucky, they lived in rhode island where cannabis was legal. >> he was probably the ...