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Can you give me some idea of how it even came to be that we would think about cannabis to treat autism? >> cannabis works on autism. i strongly believe on the basis of what we have seen in animal models and people that use a cannabis and the effects are definitely positive there should be clinical trials. we should look at the doses. this is one of the fields that are very, very promising. >> across town in jerusalem another pioneer in cannabis research is doing those exact clinical trials the doctor is talking about. you led the world's first clinical trial looking at cannabis and autism. wha...

This. >> they chose to go public with it because they wanted people to know, they wanted to help others because it worked for them. that's what they felt. so as you looked into that story and then this scientific evidence out there, you know, on a -- on a broader basis, right, anecdote is not data. is there evidence that cannabis can help with autism? >> yeah. you know, so for the last ten years, we have been reporting on this, erin. and, you know, different diseases or different issues that have been treated with cannabis and sometimes they start off anecdotal and then studies are done. we st...

Stories. there's a lot of children who are now part of these clinical trials where they are doing randomized trials, following the kids and getting interesting data. they have been doing in in israel for some time. i peek to researchers over there that we will present in the documentary. again, these parents tried everything, including powerful psychotropic drugs. kara's mom told me at one point she was getting a dose high enough for someone who weighed close to 1,000 pounds. it's tough. it's heartbreaking for these families. but in this case they have found something they think works and they...

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