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did you name any of these? no, no. the names are quirky. but the owner says this is serious medicine. how hard is this to do? it s tough. it requires persistence, patience and luck. this is josh stanley and his five brothers. they re a handsome, well-ejtd well educated, tight-knit group, all working together to make millions in colorado s medical marijuana. how have things changed here? you re looking at a new crop. this is a never-ending cycle. the stanleys sell many different kinds of medical marijuana. high thc strains tend to be the money makers, but they re now famous for growing a less profitable plant called charlotte s web. it s low this thc but high in ....
Tight security, we enter what the stanleys call the garden of eden. there s nothing like this in the world. this plant is 21% cbd and less than 1% thc. it took years of crossbreeding plants to get to this point. instead of breeding up the thc we ve bred down the thc and bred up the cbd, and people said, you re crazy. you know, who is going to smoke that? so why grow it then? well, the stanleys also believed in cbd s potential to treat many diseases. and they had seen it change lives before. i always have two meet 19-year-old chaz moore. he uses many different strains of marijuana. many of them high in cbd to treat his rare disorder of the diaphragm. my abs lock up. that s why he is talking this way, almost speaking in hiccups, like he can t catch his breath. it s called myoclonus ....
By 16, chaz was taking these powerful, addictive, potentially deadly narcotics and muscle relaxants daily, like valium and morphine. it would be safe to say that marijuana, what you have in your hand there, is better than all those pills for you in terms of treating what s going on? yeah. i m not zombified. i ve had 16, 17 attacks today, and i m still sitting up talking to you. my first attack on all these, i would be in the hospital. i m a firm believer that marijuana has actually saved my son s life. chaz s father, sean. his quality of life now is 1,000 times better than what it was when he was on the pharmaceuticals. a quality of life that paige figge desperately wanted for her daughter charlotte. but she still had one hurdle to cross, convincing dispensary owners like the stanleys to sell marijuana to a 5-year-old little girl. when charlotte s mother called my brother, joel, the brothers had a meeting and said tell us about this patient. she s 5 years old he said, and ....
Then she didn t have a seizure that night. did you sit there and look at your watch? right. i thought this is crazy. and then she didn t have one the next day. and the next day. i thought that is she would have had 100 by now. i just i know. i just thought this is insane. i remember how happy paige was. it s really working. i can t believe it. yeah, that was pretty amazing to hear. it had worked. but in just a couple of weeks the excitement was overshadowed by panic. paige was running out of marijuana and the dispensary didn t have any more of that particular strain. even if there was more, the monthly price tag would have been astronomical. $2,000, and not a penny of it covered by insurance. but then paige heard about the stanleys, the six brothers and their greenhouse of marijuana that is high in cbd. i said, oh, my goodness. he says i don t know what to do with it. we re trying new things with it, but no one wants it. it s not sellable. ....
right. i thought this is crazy. and then she didn t have one the next day. and the next day. i thought that is she would have had 100 by now. i just i know. i just thought this is insane. i remember how happy paige was. it s really working. i can t believe it. yeah, that was pretty amazing to hear. it had worked. but in just a couple of weeks the excitement was overshadowed by panic. paige was running out of marijuana and the dispensary didn t have any more of that particular strain. even if there was more, the monthly price tag would have been astronomical. $2,000, and not a penny of it covered by insurance. but then paige heard about the stanleys, the six brothers and their greenhouse of marijuana that is high in cbd. i said, oh, my goodness. he says i don t know what to do with it. we re trying new things with it, but no one wants it. it s not sellable. i said just don t touch that because we need that plant. ....