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Who's been following the cbd craze very closely. hey, lisa. >> hey, how are you. >> how are you doing? >> nice to see you. >> nice to see you. thanks for making some time. lisa gill is an investigative reporter for "consumer reports." that's the bible for mainstream 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's online. >> mints, lotions, oils, bath balms, gummies, popcorn, what is this? looks like a joint. >> yeah, and it smells like marijuana. smell that. >> i f...

>> 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 wouldn't have been able to survive. >> he recovered physically from the trama of it all but make no mistake, he's still suffering mentally and asking lots of questions. what was in this cbd oil? got him so sick? isn't 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 get...

Poison control oil and showing up in the emergency rooms saying they had used a liquid cbd oil. barbara insley crouch executive director of poison control remembers that very first call. >> one of our specialists said to me, you know what, this is really odd. i have this case. this doc 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 non-psychoactive component of the cannabis plant, right? so the first thing we said is, wait a minute, this is not consistent with cbd. i contac...

Mislabeled. some had significant thc, some had no cbd. there was no consistency whatsoever. >> alarm bells started going off. >> that's a couple of years ago. has it gotten better? >> we can't tell if it's gotten better. >> as i uncover these stories and these studies of tainted products, of mislabeled products, i couldn't help but wonder how could this happen and who's supposed to be in charge? i soon learned like so much of this, it's not simple. you see, when cbd was illegal federally, the drug enforcement agency was in charge but remember that farm bill that i told you about, that made cbd...

On the side experimenting with  something few had considered. >> there's nothing like this in the world. this plant's 21% cbd and less than 1% thc. >> initially many wondered who would want a strain of marijuana that doesn't get you high. remember, cbd is the non-psychoactive part of the plant. but josh and his brothers knew even then that this had potential. >> this area without being lightly is the future of medical marijuana. >> something the world would soon learn from a little girl named charlotte. >> whew! >> she has been called patient zero for the cbd craze. >> yeah! >> probably the m...