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Leading her back to cannabis, but jay's 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 was legal. >> he was probably the youngest person in the nation to have a cannabis license. >> with t...

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 didn't want to be touched. he had a lot of aggressions. he would attack us all the time. >> the college professor and award-winning writer used her skills to s...

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 is, jay has zero aggressions. >> and then jay's story inspired others to try cannabis, including the ...

Would be pretty happy about that. >> often time the headline is my kid is taking a cannabis drug, and some people would say, i can't 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, that's my child and i am thinking for the future, for him. >> that's 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 need of some help and really needing some balance for kara and for their own lives. >> remember, n...

Medicine. >> this is jason's 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 dependant on ethical growers and mother nature. there were many times crops got destroyed or growers...