at 8:00 p.m. eastern, "vor dane uncut." then anthony bourdain takes us to shanghai. and then lisa ling. but first, sanjay gupta's "weed 2: cannabis madness." in his documentary "weed," -- >> you've looked at the evidence. >> flat-out wrong about weed. >> a year-long journey that changed what many of us thought about marijuana, myself included. i think we've been terribly and systemically misled. we used to only picture this. then we showed you this. medical marijuana treating seizures, pain, dozens of other ailments. >> charlotte is doing amazing, better and better each month. >> but we learned this wasn't the end of the story, it was just the beginning. >> i think we went from about 150 calls a month to over 4,000. >> there's still so many issues to be addressed.

the federal government says marijuana is of the most addictive drugs with no medicinal value. many serious scientists say they're wrong. >> it's a medicine. >> it's the politics of pot. pitting policy against patients. trapped in the middle, sick, qualified people who want medical marijuana but can't get it because it's illegal. >> if you tried to go back to ohio with drugs and medication? >> we'll be arrested. >> all for a plant that you're going to see can work wonders. for pain in a grown man. m.s. in a woman at the peak of her life. and seizures in a little girl. we traveled the globe asking scientists, patients and policymakers for a solution. i'm dr. sanjay gupta. and this is "weed 2: cannabis madness." this time our journey begins in jersey, ironically called the garden state.

it's the summer of 2013. a quiet neighborhood diner about to become the site of a headline-making confrontation. between a frantic father, brian wilson, and the outspoken governor, chris christie, all over wilson's 2-year-old daughter, vivian. >> i was wondering what the holdup is. it's been two months now. it's very well documented. >> these are complicated issues. >> it's simple. >> i know you think it's simple. >> it was a david and goliath moment. >> you're going to let my daughter die? >> you've got a governor who's one of the leading republicans in the nation, and this dad who's got a little girl who he's desperately worried and in love with who just wants to do the best thing for her. >> you see, brian wilson's daughter, vivian, was dying. her brain continuously locked in seizures and nothing had worked. the wilsons were now pinning their hopes on medical

marijuana. they read about marijuana on the internet and saw stories about it saving lives. like little charlotte, whose story was told in our first documentary, "weed." >> i remember i was at the gym on the treadmill and i saw a preview. i was watching tv. i was just so excited because i knew everything was going to change at that moment. >> they hoped marijuana would rescue vivian from the virtual prison she lives in. where bright lights, loud sounds and patterns can all induce a seizure. that's why she wears that patch on her eye. >> if she could be blindfolded, she would be seizure free. it's everything. all this little stimuli. she can't leave the house. >> vivian and i first played together in her darkened, quiet, very controlled bedroom. it quickly became clear how tremendous a toll this isolation takes on vivian. but also the entire family.

no one here as a normal life including vivian's older sister, 4-year-old adele. >> every day on the way home from school, she wants to stop at the park, but we can't stop at the park because vivian's nurse leaves at 5:00 and we have to be home. >> what would adele say about that? >> she'll say we can't -- when we pass the park, she says those kids are at the park but we can't go to the park because vivian has seizures. it, like, kills you, you know? >> they're so severely affected. >> new york university neurologist dr. davinski is vivian's doctor. he's also the word's leading epilepsy doctors. >> a lot of them, western medicine has failed their children. >> the wilsons now found themselves in the political crossfire of pot. marijuana was legalized for medicinal use here in jersey right before christie took

office in january of 2010. it was done by his democratic predecessor. but once in office, christie blocked the legislation for more than a year. he eventually signed one of the strictest, most limiting medical marijuana bills to date. just six approved stores in the entire state, and perhaps most damaging for vivian, no edible forms of marijuana allowed. which was crucial. the only option then for this 2-year-old would be to inhale it. >> talk to brian wilson. >> protests erupted across the state. and that's why brian wilson took things into his own hands that day in august. >> i have read everything that's been put in front of me. >> it became known as the dustup in the diner. >> i mean, it was all over cnn. it was national news. it was like libya, vivian wilson's daughter, it was crazy. >> so you're going to let my daughter die? >> hi, how are you? >> nice to meet you.

>> it's a battle these families understand better than anyone. >> there's no hope left in miami. there was nothing left to do. >> each of these families wanted medical marijuana for their sick children. they also fought to get it in their home states. but lost. so they moved to colorado where it's legal. desperate and determined, they've become known as medical marijuana refugees. >> i came from arizona. >> we left a lot back in alabama. >> unfortunately, we had to break the news to his folks that we're not going to be coming back to texas. >> more than 100 families moving to get the marijuana they had seen in our last documentary. it's called charlotte's web, a name for the little girl we profiled. it's a plant that doesn't get you high, but is loaded with the chemical called cbd, which seems to help reduce seizures even when nothing else has worked. it changed charlotte's life. >> the drier it is, it will

extract more. >> thousands of parents called to ask the growers, josh danley and his brothers, if it could potentially work for their children. >> you tell them potentially it could, nothing is for sure. i said, well, unfortunately you have to move to colorado. >> the reason they have to move to colorado is what? >> because anything that's grown in colorado has to stay in colorado. >> it's the most absurd idea that we would have to do this to get medicine. but it's the law. marijuana is illegal federally, so even if you're prescribed it legally in a medical marijuana state, even if it works, even if it is your last hope, you're out of luck. you can't carry it across state lines. so for the wilsons, completely uprooting and lives and moving seemed to be the only option to help vivian. >> it's the hardest thing to do. we have all our family here, we have our jobs, so much we had to do. >> but just weeks after the dustup in the diner, just around the time the wilsons

allowed us to start filming their story exclusively, we received word that governor christie had eased his stance. >> senate bill 2842, affirmative -- >> eventually the state of new jersey did allow the edible form of marijuana after all. but the wilsons still had another roadblock. they couldn't get their doctors to prescribe it. >> there's a certain level of just fear within the epilepsy community that you could do more harm than good and until we go through the standard process, you should be conservative. >> and by standard process, he means scientific research. and as you're about to learn, that is nearly impossible to conduct here in the united states. >> it's time to reform the system. >> i love you so much. have fun on the airplane. >> leaving people like the wilsons in a painful and potentially deadly limbo. the exclusive journey to save their daughter when we come back.

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it's high noon at the dispensary in colorado springs. business is booming at one of the state's largest medical marijuana dispensaries. customers run the gamut of ages. >> a busy day. always a busy day, yes, sir. >> each strain, a different high. each bud, a different benefit. each leaf treating a different ailment. >> everything from mental floss to ak-47, the green crack. creative names.

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? >> good luck. good luck. it's tough. it requires persistence, patience and luck. >> this is josh stanley and his five brothers. they're a handsome, well educated, tight-knit group. all working together to make millions in colorado's medical cannabis madness. 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 cbd, remember that name. it's the key therapeutic chemical doctors are using to treat everything from chronic

pain, to lupus, to crohn's disease, and epilepsy. >> 80% of this farm is now a lie cbd, low thc. i mean, this is the exact opposite of what people think of when they think of marijuana. >> this won't get you high. >> you can set the whole hippie population of colorado loose on this plant and you're just going to be looking at a bunch of disappointing hippies. >> the stanleys are not concerned about disappointing hippies. they've seen this plant change lives. they have a brand new lab, manned with scientists who are turning their plants into medicines. brother joel stanley is in charge of that part of the business. >> it wasn't a world that i knew, so we kind of had to dive into this and learn how to make plant extracts. >> joel was reluctant at first to get involved. he avoided marijuana most of his life. but the spring of 2009, he was working in texas on the oil fields when his oldest brother, josh, asked him to join the new family business.

>> and i laughed because i thought it was just a foot in the door to legalization. i didn't think it was medicinal. the first three patients i met were cancer patients who looked me in the eye and told me if they didn't have the anti-nausea effects and the appetite stimulant and the help sleeping that they wouldn't have survived chemotherapy, and i believed them. >> that was your time of conversion? >> that was my turning point. >> and now on this mountainside, they expect to grow more than 1,000 pounds of medical marijuana in 2014. some is sold to smoke. some is sold as an oil to ingest. >> so what we're talking about is literally taking this and turning it into this? >> that's right. >> the scientists here, some of whom worked at major pharmaceutical companies, are focused on both making the medications and maintaining strict quality control. >> we can test for pesticides,

we can test for molds, mildews, we can test for residual solvents. >> testing for contamination. it's one of the biggest hurdles to creating a safe product. in fact, studies of the contamination of medical marijuana are pretty alarming. one showed a high level of insecticide residue as high as 69% in a batch of medical marijuana. it's one of the things that concerns main stream doctors about medical marijuana, safety, as well as uniformity and reliability. >> the major issue that physicians have is in the consistency of the product. how do you know what the person is getting? and the answer is, we don't. >> neurologist dr. edward mau is the chief of denver's health epilepsy program. he is one of several mainstream doctors now researching the stanley's marijuana after hearing about its dramatic results.

>> my ears perked up. maybe this is something we should be investigating. >> for years, he steered clear of cannabis because the government classified it as illegal. yet ironically when he recently surveyed his own patients, 33 octob% of them were already using medical marijuana. >> i was just shocked how many people were using it. >> what did you expect before you got those numbers back? >> i was guessing maybe 5%, 10%. >> that is part of the problem. medical marijuana patients have self-medicated for years, anxious to get relief but with very little guidance on how to do so. that's something that concerns the wilsons. >> there are not people in new jersey that know how to grow these types of. >> these are people who have political connections who got a dispensary. >> by early october 2013, there was only one dispensary open in the entire state. they don't sell a high cbd strain. the wilsons believe it could be at least a year before they will. that's a year vivian might not have. >> every seizure does damage to

her brain, her body. everything. how much longer do we wait? >> they've got to do something. not ready to move, they want to still try it. they're going to leave their familiar neighborhood behind to see firsthand if the marijuana they've heard so much about could help vivian. >> do you think this is going to work? >> for me it has to work. because if it doesn't, then i don't know where that leaves us. >> just days later, vivian wilson gets ready for the trip of a lifetime, a trip filled with danger since all the stimulation of a plane ride could induce seizures high up in the sky. vivian's future and life is on the line. my name is karen and i have diabetic nerve pain.

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♪ i love you so much. have fun on the airplane. >> it was a trip that began with a tearful, anxious departure. and fear for vivian's fragile health. she suffers from life-threatening seizures. so much worry, yet thankfully this part of their journey was surprisingly smooth. with their grandmother and father by her side, vivian was seizure free. >> hey. >> the long plane ride from new jersey to colorado ends with a warm welcome. >> hi, precious. >> vivian is finally going to try medical marijuana, cannabis, and the stanley brothers have been working hard to get it ready. but just an hour after her

arrival -- >> brian, brian, she's going with her face. >> she's seizing. bring her over. >> vivian starts having seizures, one after the other. brian rushes to get her anti-seizure medication. it's hard on vivian and on brian, and some of his doubts start to rush back in. >> it's always stressful wherever we go. i have all faith that this is going to work, but with anything you try, there's that nagging suspicion we're going to be the ones it doesn't work for. >> despite the rough night, the next morning begins with hope that relief is in sight. to meet the strict state standards, brian establishes residency in colorado by renting a small apartment. vivian meets with two doctors for a thorough physical. >> how many seizures per day? >> both doctors approve her need for cannabis and write

recommendations for medical marijuana to treat her epilepsy. >> it went good? >> yeah. >> by sunset, they're ready. little vivian has no idea of what's about to happen. >> okay. hey, vivvy, ready for your -- >> that's it right there. a tiny amount of oil squirted into her mouth. >> good job, sweetheart. >> now they just watch and wait. over the next 24 hours, vivian's seizures slowly decrease. >> look what i got. >> how is she doing? >> she's doing really good. >> to celebrate, a family picnic, outside filled with activity. balloons with patterns, decorations, and lots of sunlight. any of these things could have previously induced a seizure. it's an emotional moment for a dad, watching his daughter

finally have freedom. >> she used to be able to do this outside, but not -- this is -- yeah. come here. >> brian believes the marijuana is working. but as you're about to see, vivian is by no means cured. after an hour in the direct sun, vivian has a seizure. brian rushes to inject the drugs for potent emergency that will stop the seizures and then places an oxygen mask in case those same drugs stop vivian from breathing. >> she was out in the sun. we pushed it. >> now with the epilepsy rescue drugs still in her system, you can see just for yourself how powerful they are. >> she's absolutely doped up

right now, though. watch her trying to walk. watch her trying to do anything. >> this is difficult to watch, but it does raise this important point. the traditional drugs used to treat epilepsy can be more dangerous than cannabis. vivian's doctor, epilepsy expert -- >> i think one of the reasons marijuana is probably safe is it's related to the cannabidiol receptors. which if you have too much stimulation or inhibition of them, they don't shut off breathing or respiration. >> and that's key. the current potent epilepsy drugs impact many parts of the brain includes the brain stem. they can essentially shut off the body's vital functions if you take too much. marijuana does not do that. and that's why it's virtually unheard of to have a marijuana overdose. it's one of the reasons so many doctors are starting to change their minds on cannabis. but we are talking about children, young children. and that's going to understandably raise concerns.

the latest research shows some strains of marijuana do have a profound effect on the brains of users under the age of 25. >> thc in some good studies has been linked to psychiatric disorders, memory disorders in children under 16. though it's low thc content, there may be long-term side effects. >> what do you worry most about in the long run? >> the fact that we don't understand the long-term effects of this medication in brain developments. >> these are tough choices, made even tougher when you uproot your whole life for marijuana. >> i do a lot of fund-raising and get a lot of friend's help to get us here. >> so we left. daddy's at home in cleveland. >> they come from all walks of life. a stay-at-home mom from ohio. an insurance salesman from alabama. a nurse practitioner from florida. >> it's exciting to think about the opportunity for her, i mean, to hold her head up, look at us

and say mom, dad. >> but now, they're trapped. >> you can't take the medicine back to florida, can you? >> no. they would take my child away. i'm pretty sure. that's my fear. >> they would take your child away for giving him his medicine? >> yeah. >> this is the problem between the federal and state level. this conflict is really driving families apart. >> that's just crazy. >> it's crazy. it's absolutely crazy. i try not to think of it at this point. i'm just trying to get some quick results in vivian so we know this is the path to continue on. >> over the next couple of days, they see some startling results. vivian goes from 75 seizures a day to just 10. the wilsons are now more convinced than ever they have to keep vivian on marijuana. but how? financially, they aren't ready to move here full time, and yet

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we're driving deep into the english countryside now just a couple hours outside of london. we're on our way to visit g.w.

pharmaceuticals. they're a company that makes medicines from the actual marijuana plant. now, although this is done with the express permission of the uk government, we did have to sign confidentiality agreements and cannot disclose exactly where we're going to be located. you see, marijuana is illegal in just about every part of this country, except for the secret labs we're about to enter. wow! this is pretty spectacular. are you used to the smell? >> i'm not particularly partial to the smell. >> if you had smellevision on your tv, you would be overpowered by now. it's a lot of pot. this greenhouse is the size of a football field, and they have several more just like it throughout the united kingdom. the lighting, temperature, humidity, all monitored by a top secret central computer that keeps those conditions constant. and there are dozens of scientists regularly tending the

plants. this is probably the most tlc for a weed i've ever heard of. >> one would hope so. absolutely. >> dr. jeffrey guy who runs g.w. pharmaceuticals says ts has to be this way, because they're trying to do something no other pharmaceutical company in the world is attempting. turning the actual marijuana plant into a prescription drug. >> when you look out at all of this, what comes to your mind? >> i look at this, and i think we can make generations of medicines over the next 25, 30 years. >> medicines for illnesses like alzheimer's, diabetes and ptsd and epilepsy and autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and crohn's. some are more therapeutic than the others. those are the cannabinoids.

>> in our research, we're able to say what each individual one does. we can then breed into the plant the materials that will provide us with a range of beneficial effects. >> designer cannabis plants are then reduced to a whole plant extract, and that's crucial according to the granddaddy of all marijuana research, israel's dr. rafael mashula. >> when they've tried to make drugs using certain compounds from marijuana, it's met with limited success. why is it when you take certain compounds out of the marijuana and try to make a drug, it doesn't seem to work as well? >> well, one of the reasons possibly is because the thc works better when cannabidiol is there. so if you have both, it works better. >> mashula calls it the entourage effect, and that's what g.w. is doing. every extract will have all the plant's chemicals in it. the extract is then packaged as an approved prescription spray.

in order to increase the chances of getting that approval, every step from growing to harvesting, to manufacturing, is all carefully controlled, regulated and rigorously tested to strict standards. so that every plant, every ex-tracex tra tract, every dose is identify, safe, and effective. it is an expensive and painstakingly slow process. it's taken hundreds of millions of dollars and a decade to develop their first drug for the unrelenting pain and spasms brought on by multiple sclero s sclerosis. >> is this a place that you walk? >> as a neurosurgeon, myself, i was curious how well this medicine could work. theresa pointer was diagnosed with ms in february of 2004. for years she struggled with pain and exhaustion. she tried just about everything, but found the drugs prescribed to her were ineffective or had awful side effects. then one day in 2005, she read in the newspaper about clinical trials for a marijuana.

based medicine. have you ever tried cannabis? what were your thoughts on it? >> no, no. ever since i was a little girl, my mum had always said to me don't do drugs, don't do drugs. >> but nearly wheelchair bound, teresa was desperate. she tried it. a spray to the back of her throat several times a day. even once during our interview. her pain and muscle spasms are now well controlled. >> just the relief to be able to have a couple of sprays before i go to bed and feel comfortable enough to just go to sleep. >> the risk of side effects are pretty low. >> neurologist dr. eli silbur prescribes it for some of his patients. >> some people feel slightly dizzy and lightheaded, if you want to call it, slightly stoned. some people might feel slightly tired with it. >> but according to g.w.'s studies, only 6% of patients stopped taking the drug because of the side effects. more than 50% did get relief and continued on the drug.

all of that makes it a potentially powerful medicine for the 2.3 million ms sufferers worldwide. it's now available in 25 countries but not the united states where it's still under investigation. why so much more stringent in the united states? >> i think there is a greater level of rigor at all levels of regulatory inquiry in the u.s. >> like any drug in the united states, cannabis would have to go through rigorous testing, research and approval by the fda. but after that, things start to get tricky. you see, marijuana also needs the approval of other governmental l agencies like the national institutes of health and the drug enforcement administration. this is, of course, difficult, if not impossible. why? because in the united states, marijuana is illegal and classified by the government as a schedule 1 controlled substance. that means it's considered to be among the most addictive drugs and not recognized as having any medicinal benefit. and that's why what i'm about to

tell you is so ironic. >> the irony is that the federal government has patented one of the important chemicals in the plant. >> the government of the united states has a patent on a substance for medicinal purposes at the same time they say it has no medicinal purpose? >> exactly. >> this mayo clinic researcher is talking about patent number 6630507, held by the u.s. depth of health and human services for the exclusive use of cannabinoids for the use of certain treatments. >> i was stunned that the federal government is sitting on this wonderful thing, and not letting anybody else do anything with it. >> when we went to the government to ask about it, none of the agencies involved would comment. >> we're being handcuffed by the government, preventing us from doing the right trials. >> in fact, a 2013 search

through the u.s. national library of medicined revealed 2,000 recent papers on marijuana, but the majority of them explored the harm. only 6% investigated the benefits. many believe that's the result of a draconian system gone awry, resulting in marijuana becoming one of the country's most controlled substances. and many people believe that has to change. but it was one of the experts calling for that change that surprised me the most. the director of the national institute on drug abuse. that's the very agency that many say has blocked a good deal of cannabis research. >> if the researchers feel this is an impediment to them doing actually science, scientific work, this is something that should be addressed. >> on the front lines of that battle, the son of a political dynasty. coming up, how this anti-drug crusader is fighting to get cannabis drugs to patients like vivian.

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adele, can you put some shoes on? >> it's early november 2013 at the wilson home. just a few days early, vivian's parents were surprised by a call from one of the only two dispensaries currently open in the entire state of new jersey. they stay they have a strain of cannabis that is low in psychoactive thc and high in therapeutic cbd. after a year of fighting governor connecticut

chris christie -- >> and then months searching for doctors to prescribe cannabis, the wilsons are finally getting it in their hometown. once they pick up the cannabis at the dispensary, they're confused. >> it's .3% thc and .13% cbd? >> this isn't like picking up a standard prescription. there are no standard doses or federal guidelines. >> your cbda -- >> right. that's the one that you want. >> they leave uncertain, not knowing exactly what they're getting. and here's another problem, what they get at the dispensary are leaves vich vivian can't use. >> how many grams did we say we're going to do? >> half pounds. it's up to their parents to make medicine out of those leaves. for that, they're used this glorified crock pot to activate the plant and turn it into an oil. >> once we have oil, we don't know exactly what the ratio is, because it's not going to be

exactly what this says because it just went through this heating process. >> it's trial and error. something we heard from so many medical marijuana patients. >> i do a mixture of thc, cbn and cbd. >> frank bianco had to experiment with many different strains of marijuana to find the right kind to treat his chronic pain and arthritis from an old football injury. >> i have extreme pain in my knee. my body is exhausted, my knee is going to be sore, maybe swelling on the joint, maybe i'll sit down and smoke some flower. >> prescribed painkillers made him sick, so he was desperate and willing to try something new. >> literally within 15, 20 seconds, the pain just went away, it was gone. absolutely exited the body. >> turns out the most common use for medical marijuana is pain. early studies suggest that cannabis reduces inflammation

and provides a buffer against pain. but according to stanford trained dr. margaret geddie, there is no one-step treatment for pain. >> so patients are kind of let loose in the sense that they have to try things and find out which strain works. it might be different at different times. >> frank now works in the stanley's lab, where he helps to make the medicines he takes morning, noon and night. a variety of different stains. he says his pain is gone and he functions well. it's a mix that works for him. >> is it risky? to be doing the trial and error process? >> there are some risks. you don't know your baseline for what milligram, your edibles you can ingest. if you ingest too much, you can pass out. >> some stories i've heard is people who followed recipes and i've had children admitted to emergency rooms psychotic from the marijuana product. >> i'm good, how are you? >> that's why he feels job number one is to make marijuana

safe, reliables and effective. one way to do that is through research, which is why since the summer of 2013 he's been trying to begin the first ever united states research trial on g.w.'s new cannabis-based epilepsy drug. but the hurdles have been nearly insurmountable. >> if you're looking at the potential medicinal benefits, it's very hard to get funding. >> after many months, he was able to secure funding and approval from his hospital, new york university. but getting the government, fda, and bureau of government enforcement to sign off was nearly impossible. one of their biggest issues was security. >> so as part of this, you had to have a safe put in? >> this is new and only for this project. >> a 1,200 pound safe watched by multiple security cameras and alarm systems, all for a drug so low in thc that it can't get you high. and even with that, he's still waiting for final federal

approval. >> the failure of the federal government through its regulatory arms, dea, fda and the like, has led to a public health debacle. >> patrick kennedy, with his deep political connections and famous name, is pushing the feds to fast track cannabis research. >> they ought to get at it quickly. >> that's my view. >> the fda and the federal government, they ought to just get it done. we just need a greater urgency to this issue overall. >> it's a bold statement for kennedy. a recovering addict who's been outspoken that making medical marijuana legal in any way is dangerous. that more children will be able to access it and more smokers will become addicted to it. now he thinks the only way to remove that risk is to have all medical marijuana products federally regulated, rigorously studied and strictly controlled. >> i think making this truly a

>> i think making this truly a medicine as opposed to forcing people to go on the street and try to buy something that they can't determine whether it is what it says it is. >> but he understands why sick patients want marijuana now. remember his father, ted kennedy, died of brain cancer and his brother lost his leg to cancer. >> i wouldn't have begrudged any member of my family with cancer, and they've all had cancer, anything that would have mitigated the chemo therapy. >> it's why he's meeting with everyone, from the fda to the white house, to speed things up. but it takes time. time the wilsons don't have. they're finally going to try their new homemade cannabis oil. >> we weren't able to get it tested or anything, so we have no idea what it is, which is why we have to be really cautious. >> behind closed doors, brian tries it to make sure he doesn't get high. he doesn't. so vivian is next.

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the wilson's optimism is fading as fast as the falling february rain. they've rented their house, packed up their lives, finally headed to colorado.

>> we figured there would be a way to make it work. >> it's crazy. just crazy that the program is such a failure. >> that's vivian's nurse screaming for help. vivian is helping a bad seizure. >> i know. did it hurt? >> she's gotten these welts. she's having afternoon seizures. something's not right. >> it would be one of vivian's last seizures in this home. soon after, a house once filled with life, is empty. the wilsons are leaving everything behind. >> bye, eyeless snowman. >> when you look at some of these situations, families uprooting their lives and moving to colorado, what goes through your mind? >> i think it's a strange point

we have that these people can't get access for the most severe cases to something that might be very helpful for their child and might be potentially life saving for their child. >> something davinski is hoping to change. he's gotten the government green light to start research on a cannabis based epilepsy drug. it's too late for vivian. but not for hundreds of children in the trials. >> it's exciting to be at this point in medicine where we're going to hopefully get some answers about a drug that's been part of our species's history for thousands of years >> but those answers won't come immediately. in the meantime, the stanleys aren't slowing down. they finally succeeded in getting charlotte's web out of colorado and into the hands of patients in california. >> you got your medicine. >> how about splitting families up. >> now the brothers have their sights set nationally. in states like oklahoma. >> don't make them pick up and

have to move to a state like colorado. >> in fact, 15 more states are considering legalizing medical marijuana. >> there are other people in this room who need the immediate gratification of that drug. >> the ever-growing support of main stream medicine doesn't hurt. in a recent poll of nearly 2,000 doctors, 76% said they're in favor of using medical marijuana for a needy patient. now six medical marijuana states have expanded their laws to allow card carrying patients to bring cannabis medicine into their home state. yet unfortunately for the wilsons, new jersey is not one of them. >> it will not happen on my watch, ever. i am done expanding the medical marijuana program. >> literally the same hour he said that, our friend's daughter was taken off a ventilator after a 26-hour seizure. >> 15 months old. >> and you're like, yeah, that

could be vivian, you know? >> tuesday, february 25th, denver, colorado. brian is setting up house, unpacking boxes, picking up a two-month supply of vivian's new cannabis medicine. >> $667.37 for the total. >> everything is in place when they arrive a few days later. after settling in, vivian's ready for her first dose. >> this is it, huh? >> yeah. >> it's been a long road. >> it really has. >> she's a little tired, but ready. >> the first of many doses, the beginning of a new life. >> i am so happy with this neighborhood, and i needed something to make this really positive. i needed to be somewhere that i was going to absolutely love. >> and create new memories.

yet there's always the constant reminder of everything they left behind. >> we're stuck here. vivian can't leave this state as things stand now. >> right. e she can't cross any borders. and the grandparents aren't going to see their grandchildren much, and it's really sad. >> in the midst of the sadness, a realization that the sacrifice might have meaning. >> was this a battle that was won? >> clearly we're here now. vivian does not have what she needs in new jersey, so in that respect we didn't win. but there's a conversation going on and people are talking about medical marijuana a lot more. >> how great! >> and for the wilsons, other patients and dedicated scientists, all who believe this plant might be able to change lives, that is a victory. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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