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>> he eats plants -- >> changes that have continued long after ezra stopped taking the study drugs almost a year ago. >> he has had no regression whatsoever. i don't think it's a cure, but i think it's going to make it easier for him, you know, easier for him to live. >> interestingly, these were the same kind of long-term changes jay also experienced. >> i don't know if i would use the word heal, but it's helping him become more himself. he has a right to be healthy and to be happy and to feel joy, and this is certainly helped him do that, and that's all i can ask for. >> i want to be very cl...

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. there's not yet the data. there aren't the studies as of now. there isn't the confidence to plunge forward. >> it's not a good idea to run out and buy it and just try to use it on your own. it's not clear what dose is the best dose if it does work. also whether what you are buying really has the dose you think it does, because it's unregulated. and then ...

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...

Him calm kara. they were willing to try anything, but their home state of texas has the most restrictive cannabis laws. >> it's 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. >> an award-winning novelist wrote about giving her son cannabis, but only now was she willing to sit down to talk about it and introduce us to jason, who she calls jay. >> i think one of the biggest mischaracterizations that i got was, ...

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 zartlers. it was on a car ride like this when the zartlers first...