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Treat pain without risk of overdose. and part of the reason people don't stop taking the opioids is because of the withdrawal. it is like chemo therapy for cancer patients, we know cannabis has helped these patients. and it help here. when you are addicted, you have a brain disease. if you keep taking opioids that brain disease never gets better. i have evidence, and we are going to present it that cannabis it help change those brain changes. >> you can see the shift. >> you can see the changes in the brain to the point of, if look at these changes in the brain, there is no way to ask someone ...

With it and i think they're trying to figure it out as they go through the measures. >> what's different of the number of americans receiving relieves from additional purposes and how i recognize that's not recreational but how we ever turn back the clock on them and say no, you cannot for the side effects of chemo therapy smoking pot or inge ingestible or whatever it maybe, your word on that is what? >> marijuana is a legal substance, i believe it is here to stay. it is legal for states 21 and almost 22 years. >> i think evidence of the relief that it can provide is so obvious. you see childr...

And finally tonight, america strong. one passenger distraught when he luggage went missing. the critical medicine she needed was inside. and a southwest employee knew it and made good on a big promise. here is abc's steve osunsami. >> reporter: we've all been there. you land safely but your bag doesn't. >> they said, oh, it'd be coming on your later original flight and we'll call you when it arrives at 6:30. >> reporter: it happened to stacey hurt in pittsburgh. she arrived home, but her bag with important medicine she depends on in her fight with colon cancer was still stuck in nashville. >> ...

Steps? >> well, this is one of those types of tumors that is -- it doesn't have a particular cure. there's not a type of treatment you can say is going to likely lead to cure. the types of treatments typically are a combination of che che chemo therapy and radiation to his brain. this is a discussion i'm sure senator mccain and his family are going to have with doctors as how to proceed and when to proceed. just recovering from this operation can take a couple weeks, but to begin this therapy, radiation, chemotherapy. they have to wait three to four weeks until after the operation. he had the ...

Venezuela. many blame crippling shortages for a crumbling economy. saturday was the 50th day of anti-government rallies there. in is ram the government is cracking down and intimidating journalists even as the sister network in es sppaniol was take off the air. >> a warning this contains graphic video. >> reporter: pain is never worse than needed. daniel is 14, elsewhere, probably they would have kept her leg. in venezuela, chemo therapy is sort. so were the odds. the bone tumor in her leg would spread. just a little cold water, the doctor says. careful. she cries.