Lotions to lattes. We sell everything. You name it. In every shape and size for pain, for anxiety, even soft skin. This says its for. Hangover. Cbd is everywhere. Its even in the water. Its in coffee. As you walk down the streets, you see cbd signs everywhere. We know it wont get you high, but we still dont know much more. Research is slim. Hi, sweet heart. Yet Success Stories are not. She was dying. She was not going to live long. Lives changed for the best. But now were also learning about lives that were changed for the worst. Experts are warning about a spice product being sold at local smoke shops. The concern is around cbd oil. You thought you might die . Honestly, yeah. What you thought was harmless could be dangerous. Is the cbd supply chain safe . And whats legal could be illegal. What you need to know. What we wanted to make sure you knew. This is weed 5 the cbd craze. As im driving down these colorado roads, im realizing we should start this journey where our e weweed investigation bega 2013 where this band of brothers who many think are responsible for starting the cbd craze. These are the Stanley Brothers. Sanjay. Whats going on, brothers . When we first introduced you to them in 2013. Im joel. Im josh. They were young. Unknown and struggling with a new business. Now everywhere you guys go, there is cameras chasing you. Now june 2019, they are a bit older, more experienced and very rich. Their cbdbased Cannabis Company is now a marijuana empire publicly traded and worth an estimated 2 billion. Has it affected you . Were able to drive cars now that will actually get to where were going. [ laughter ] its true. Back then, they were growing 600 pounds of medical marijuana a year on less than an acre. Greenhouse one. Greenhouse one. Wow. Betting the farm on thc and on the side experimenting with something few had considered. There is nothing like this in the world. This is 20 cbd and less than 1 thc. Initially many wondered who would want a strain of marijuana that doesnt get you high . Remember, cbd is the nonpsycho active part of the plant. But josh and his brothers knew even then that this had potential. This area without putting it lightly is the future of medical marijuana. Something the world would soon learn from a little girl named charlotte. She has been called patient zero for the cbd craze. The most important thing ill ever do is help my own child and share that information and help others. Born with a rare form of epilepsy called drayvay syndrome, charlotte had a seize cure every 30 minutes. Every one potentially fatal. When nothing helped. This is charlottes web. Her parents gave charlotte the stanleys cbd oil. She didnt have a seizure that day, and then she didnt have one the next day and then the next day. I just thought this is insane. That was six years ago. That, i think, really catapulted cbd into the National Limelight as the most favored a canabinoid. This doctor believes thats when the cbd craze began. It was sort of under the table until charlotte and sanjay gupta got together and threw it into the public domain. The stanleys and their special cbd strain became famous. Charlotte is an explorer. They have been contacted by thousands of families. All of a sudden, everyone wanted the thing that helped that little girl. Jared stanley and his brothers cant grow the plants fast enough. That third of an acre that i walked on more than six years ago has been replaced. No, its almost 800 acres. This has to be one of the Fastest Growing things that i think ive seen. Any kind of industry. My poor brother jared who runs the entire agricultural division. The guy hasnt slept in switch years. As the stanleys empire grew, so did the countrys interest in cbd. A recent poll shows that two out of three americans now know what cbd is. And one out of seven use it. Im here in downtown new york city which is like a lot of cities around the country. There are a ton of stores here selling cbd products so ill talk to somebody whose been following the cbd craze very closely. Hey, lisa. Hey, how are you . Good. How are you doing . Good to see you. Thanks for making some time. Yeah. Lisa gill is an Investigative Reporter for consumer reports. Thats the bible for main stream consumer products. An unexpected place to read about cbd. There are thousands upon thousands of products across the United States on store shelves and not even counting what is online. Mints, lotions, oils, bath bombs, gummys, popcorn. What is this . Looks like a joint . And smells like marijuana. Smell that. I feel like i would totally get busted. I think i would, too. I swear, officers, its cbd. All kidding aside, this is where it gets a little confusing. For decades, cannabis including cbd has been illegal federally. That all seemed to change with the passage of the 2018 farm bill that technically made growing hemp with cbd in less than. 3 thc legal. Or at least thats what most people think. Even though it makes cbd federally legal, it allows the states to decide whether or not they will permit sales of it or permit farmers to grow it. In my opinion, its very confusing for an individual to try to understand what is my state doing . Whats crazier is lots of retailers sell it anyway. You might walk into a store and think it must be legal because its here. In my personal 15 years of covering pharmaceutical medications, overthecounter medications and supplements, there is not one compound like cbd. Yet despite the confusion, people and companies are willing to take the chance. There is so much money to be made. The u. S. Cbd market hit an estimated 591 million in 2018 and experts believe it could hit 22 billion by 2022. All because of those Seven Brothers and that one little girl. 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Her father wanted some of charlottes oil to help his daughter, to save her life. Its a horrible thing to have to see your daughter suffer like this. After losing the fight to access cbd because of Chris Christies medical marijuana laws. It will not happen on my watch ever. The family moved to colorado. Come on in. To legally access the cbd oil the stanleys had used with charlotte now called charlottes web. We were there in their new house for vivians first dose. 2014. We came out here for cbd and you want to believe that its going to be the cure. Is this her . Yeah. Excited to see her. 2019, when we arrive back in denver to see the wilsons again, we quickly learn that vivian tried many different kinds of cbd and none of them had been a cure. How are you . We moved two thirds of the way across the country for cbd, which is like something that you can buy in your butter now. Is it all good . I dont think so. I think theres a lot of misinformation. What are you doing here . Hi. Turns out vivians experience with what seemed to work miracles for some was no miraculous for her. We seen an initial improvement and things were good. The more we increased her cbd the more seizures she had and we couldnt figure out what it was. There is no evidence that cbd caused these seizures but clearly, it was no longer working for her. It wasnt the benefit that they were necessarily seeking. Dr. Kelly nup, vivians number log gist from Childrens Hospital in denver remembered those early years. When a new medicine is started we may see benefit for a couple months, sometimes six months, eight months and the benefit may gradually go away. We dont fully understand why that is. One day i looked at brian like she seized all night long. Its the cbd. Im done. We stopped and she never had another one at night in her sleep. It was the exact opposite of what we found 60 miles away. When we arrived at the figgys doorstep. Sanjay. Remember me . Welcome back. Hey, charlotte. Hey, sweet heart. Do you remember me . [ laughter ] i think thats a yes, maybe. It was more than we expected. And it was more than page had ever allowed herself to hope for. Youre walking pretty good, sweet heart. I cant imagine back then seeing her at 12 years old and what that looked like. She was dying and was not going to live long. How is charlotte doing . Shes good. Shes stable and she doesnt take any medications, just this oil shes been using for more than half of her life. Why did cbd work so well for charlotte but not for vivian. What is different about the children who responded to cbd from those who didnt . So im wondering if there is some honeymoon effect there, as well. There is a suspicion that maybe it works by increasing the blood level of the anti seizure medicine that the children were already on. Some think this money moon period kids like vivian experienced might be explained by her liver. Good job. Cbd works in the liver, in the enzymes that break down other prescription medicines and cbd inhibits those enzymes so that they dont break down pharmaceuticals to the extent that they should be broken down allowing them to get a higher level and perhaps more effective or perhaps more toxic. The fact that cbd can affect your liver enzymes and change the way they interact with your body could be dangerous. 60 are broken down in the liver that could be affected by cbd use like drugs you might use every day. Antibiotics, anti histamines, antidepressants. Its not benign. Thats my concern about the wide spread use of cbd. Thats medicine in that bag . Thats what i think. Trying to prove it. When i first met Donald Abrams four years ago, he was on the cutting edge of cannabis research. So much promise then but he says not much progress now. He does skill believe in the potential healing power of marijuana but is concerned about cbd alone. The cbd craze that were in i think is unprecedented really in the history of medicine. Its a compound that has gotten way ahead of any research to support the claims that are being made. Abrarms was part of the team of doctors in 2017 with the National Academy of sciences that did what is considered the most comprehensive review of all the studies done on the benefits of cannabis. There are only about five in the medical literature studies looking at the therapeutic benefits of cbd. Not only are there few studies, the sdtudies that we have are not good quality. There is hardly research for the benefits of the wellness products in stores. There is very little for a lot of these things but the potential side effect particularly for low doses is pretty low. Might help, cant hurt, why not . Thats why so many people use cbd. And its something weve heard for years since our investigation first began. Whoa. And now, as we keep digging, were learning that it could sometimes hurt. 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In life, everyone has days they wish they could just forget. For College Junior jay jenkins, that day was may 8th, 2018. Youre sitting there in the passenger seat just like you are now. Right, just like i am now. My buddy asks if i ever tried cbd oil. So i said no, not really interested in it, you know, why would i . He asked a few more times and eventually i gave in and said sure, ill try it. They drove to a Convenience Store and bought a cbd product labeled yolo. Yolo stands for you only live once. Why did you do it . I didnt think there was a risk trying it. I didnt hear of anybody having negative effects from it so i thought i had nothing to lose. I took two puffs off of it and the next thing i know, im feeling crazy and not thinking straight and not being able to move. Within seconds, jay appeared to have lost consciousness. And started to have frightening he hallucinations. His friend drove him to Lexington Medical Center where he started having seizures. From the glasgow coma scale i scored a three. 15 is normal and three is braindead essentially. Yes, sir. You thought you might die . Honestly, yeah, at the time i was seeing all this crazy stuff going on in my head and crazy hallucinations going on. I thought i was in hell and dead. What did the doctors say to you and what do you remember . If i got there much later, i wouldnt have been able to survive. He recovered physically from the trama of it all but make no mistake, hes still suffering mentally and asking lots of questions. What was in this cbd oil . Got him so sick . Isnt cbd supposed to be safe . Jay would soon learn is around the same time, people 2000 miles away in salt lake city, utah had also been getting sick from a similar substance. Experts are warning about a spice product sold at local smoke shops labeled as cbd oil. People started calling utahs poison control and showing up in the Emergency Rooms saying they used a liquid cbd oil. Barbara end endsly remembers th very first call. One of our specialists said to me, you know what . This is really odd. I have this case. This doctor called me about it and sort of described that this was supposedly cbd they vaped. As more calls came in, crouch knew something was wrong. First of all, cbd is the nonpsycho active component of the plant, right . The first thing we said is wait a minute, this is not consistent with cbd. I com tantacted the Health Department and said something is going on here. I dont know what it is. This doesnt make sense but something is going on. Everything pointed to the one thing most patients had no common. They had used a counter fit product labeled yolo, cbd oil. Similar to the one jay took. So crouch went to a local smoke shop to obtain an unopened bottle to the place. The gentleman showed me that product and asked me what my tolerance for getting high was. It was clear to me that the overall intent was not necessarily therapeutic. Is this product in the bottle something from an acredited laboratory or something made in somebodys garage . Agent christopher with the state burro of investigation was assigned to the case as part of a newly created task force. In the early phases, we were seeking to collect the samples, get them to the lab and determine what the substance actually was. When we had these tested by the state crime lab, there was absolutely no cbd in the actual bottles. It was entirely a compound. Thats a synthetic thats associated with fatalities in europe. Eventually the centers for Disease Control and prevention got involved. Roberta is an epidemiologist there. We were fortunate in this cluster that we didnt detect any fatalities. When you talked to the victims, did you tell them what you found . They were quite angry. They werent expecting that when they walk into a shop they will get a product that has been tainted. In the end, Law Enforcement was unable to pinpoint where these toxic products were coming from. So ultimately with this, we were never able to find out who it was making it and distributing it. No criminal charges were filed. And that is a consequence of this cbd craze. In the middle of this circus, countless people got sick and the people to blame simply disappeared. After its all said and done, it shocked me, too, that suc