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cannabidiol or cbd. well, now it's part of our daily dialogue and it's ignited a multibillion-dollar trindustry. and that got us wondering has it gone too far? so we're back on the road across the united states and the world searching for the truth about cbd. ♪ from oils from tinktures to lotions to lattes. >> we sell pretty much everything, you name it. >> in every shape and size for pain, for anxiety, even soft skin. >> this says it's for. >> hangover. >> cbd is everywhere. >> it's even in the water. it's in coffee as you walk down the streets. you see cbd signs everywhere. >> we know it won't get you high. but we still don't know much more. research is slim. >> hey, sweetheart. >> yet success stories are not. >> she was dying. she was not going to live long. >> lives changed for the best.

but now we are also learning about lives that were changed for the worst. >> experts are warning about a spice product that i being sold at local smoke shops. the concerned centers around cbd oil. >> you thought you might die? >> honestly, yeah. >> what you thought was harmless could be dangerous. >> is the cbd supply chain safe? >> and what's legal could be illegal. what you need to know. we wanted to make sure you knew. this is "weed 5: the cbd craze." ♪ >> as i'm driving down these colorado roads, i realize that we should start this journey right where our first weed

investigation began, back in 2013 with this family of pioneers, a band of brothers who many think are responsible for starting the cbd craze. >> these are the stanley brothers. >> what's going on, brothers? >> when we first introduced you to them back in 2013. >> i'm joel. >> i'm josh. >> they were young, unknown, and struggling with a new business. >> now everywhere you guys go there's cameras chasing you. >> now june 2019, they're a bit older, more experienced, and very rich. their cbd-based cannabis company is now a marijuana empire. publicly traded and worth an estimated $2 billion. >> has it affected you?

>> we are able to drive cars now that will actually get to where we're going. [ laughter ] >> that's true. >> back then, they were growing 600 pounds of medical marijuana a year on less than an acre. >> greenhouse one. wow. >> betting the farm on thc. and 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 nonpsychoactive part of the plant. but josh and his brothers knew even then that this had potential. >> this area, without putting it lightly, is the future of medical marijuana. >> something the world would soon learn from a little girl named charlotte.

she has been called patient zero for the cbd craze. >> the most important thing i'll have ever do is help my child and share that information to help others. >> born with a rare form of epilepsy, charlotte had a sezure every 30 minutes. every one potentially fatal. when nothing helped. >> this is charlotte's web. >> her parents gave charlotte the stanley cbd oil. >> she didn't have a seizure that day. and then she didn't have one the next day. then the next day. i just thought this is insane. >> that was six years ago. >> that i think really catapulted cbd into the national limelight as the most favored cannabinoid. >> cannabis research dr. donald abrams believes that's when the cbd craze began. >> it was sort of under the

table until charlotte and sanjay gupta got together and threw it into the public domain. >> the stanleys and their special cbd strain became famous. >> they have been contacted by thousands of families. >> all of a sudden everyone wanted the thing that had helped that little girl. >> jared stanley and his brothers can't grow the plants fast enough. >> and that third of an acre that i walked on more than six years ago has been replaced. >> now it's almost 800 acres. >> this has got to be one of the fastest growing things that i think i've seen, i mean, in any kind of industry. >> my poor brother jared who runs the entire agricultural division, he hasn't slept in seven years. >> as the stanleys' empire grew, so did the country's interest in cbd. a recent poll shows that two out of three americans now know what

cbd is. and one out of seven use it. i'm here in downtown new york city which is like a lot of cities around the county. there are a ton of stores here selling cbd products. so i'm going to talk to somebody who's been following the cbd craze very closely. hey, lisa. >> hey, how are 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? even -- it looks like a joint. >> and it smells like marijuana.

i mean -- >> i feel like i would totally get busted. >> i think i would too. >> i swear, officer, it's cbd. it's totally. >> all kidding aside, this is where it gets a little confusing. for decades, cannabis including cbd has been illegal federally. that all seemed to change with the passage of the 2018 farm bill which technically made growing hemp with cbd in less than .3% thc legal. or at least that's what most people think. >> even though it makes cbd federally legal, it allows the states to decide whether or not they are going to permit sales of it or permit farmers to grow it. so, in my opinion, it's very confusing for an individual to try to understand, well, what is my state doing? what's even crazier is that lots of retailers sell it anyway. so you might walk into a store and think it must be legal because it's here. in my personal 15 years of covering pharmaceutical medications, over-the-counter

medications and supplements, there is not one compound like cbd. >> yet despite the confusion, people and companies are willing to take the chance. there's so much money to be made. the u.s. cbd market hit an estimated $591 million in 2018. and experts believe they could hit 22 billion by 2022. all because of those seven brothers. and that one little girl. but with success comes new concerns. >> any time a craze comes out, you have everybody trying to jump in the boat, that can be a little bit dangerous. >> that side of the story when we come back. ♪

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this has been like two months now. is it very well-documented? had. >> these are complicated issues. >> cbd did seem so simple then. it was 2014 when we first started covering the case of vivian wilson, a new jersey toddler with seizure just like charlotte. >> please don't let my daughter die, governor. >> her father wanted some of charlotte's oil to help his daughter to save her life. >> it's a horrible thing to have to see your daughter suffer like this. >> after losing the fight to access cbd because of then governor chris christie's medical marijuana laws. >> it will not happen on my watch ever. >> the family moved to colorado. >> come on in. >> to legally access the cbd oil the stanleys had used with charlotte, now called charlotte's web. we were there in their new house for vivian's first dose.

2014. >> we came out here for cbd and you want to believe that it's going to be the cure. >> is this her? >> yes. >> i'm excited to see her. >> 2019 when we arrived back in denver to see the wilsons again we quickly learned that vivian had tried many different kinds of cbd, and none of them had been a cure. >> how are you? >> we moved two-thirds of the way across the country for cbd which is like something that you can buy in your butter now. >> is it all good? >> i don't think so. i think there's a lot of misinformation. >> what'cha doing here? >> turns out vivian's experience with what seemed to work miracles for some was not miraculous for her. >> we saw this like initial improvement and things were good. the more we were increasing her cbd, the more seizures she started having at night up to like 40 a night. and we just couldn't figure out what it was. >> there's no evidence that cbd caused these seizures, but clearly it was no longer working for her. >> it wasn't the benefit that

they were necessarily seeking. >> dr. kelly, vivian's neurologist from children's hospital in denver remembers those early years for the wilsons. >> when a new medicine is started, we may see benefit for a couple of months, sometimes six months, 12 months, and then the benefit may gradually go away, and we don't fully understand why that is. >> one day i just looked at brian and i said, like, you know, she just seized all night long. i said it's the cbd, i'm done. we stopped and she never had another focal seizure again in her sleep. it was the exact opposite of what we found just 60 miles away. when we arrived at the figge's doorstep. >> sanjay! welcome back. >> hey, charlotte. hey, sweetheart.

do you remember me? [ laughter ] >> i think that's a yes, maybe. it was more than we expected, and it was more than paige had ever allowed herself to hope for. >> you're walking pretty good, sweetheart. >> i can't imagine back then seeing her at 12 years old and what that would look like. she was dying. she was not going to live long. >> how is charlotte doing? she's good. she's stable and she doesn't take any medications, just this oil that she's been using for more than half of her life. >> but why did cbd work so well for charlotte? but not for vivian? >> what is different about the children who responded to cbd from those who didn't? so i'm wondering if there is some honeymoon effect there as well. >> there is a suspicion that maybe it works by increasing the blood level of the anti-seizure medicine that the children were

already on. >> some think this honeymoon period that kids like vivian experienced might be explained by her liver. >> cbd works in the liver, in the enzymes that break down the other prescription medicines. and cbd inhibits those enzymes so that they don't break down pharmaceuticals to the extent that they should be broken down, allowing them to get a higher level. and perhaps more effective or perhaps more toxic. >> the fact that cbd can affect your liver enzymes and change the way drugs interact with your body could potentially be very dangerous. 60% of medications are broken down in the liver that could be anktded by cbd use. they include drugs you might use every day, antibiotics, anti-histamines, antidepressants. >> it's not entirely benign. and that's one of my concerns about the widespread use of cbd.

>> that's medicine in that bag? >> that's what i think, trying to prove it. >> when i first met donald abrams four years ago he was on the cutting edge of cannabis research. so much promise then, but he says not much progress now. he does still believe in the potential healing power of marijuana but is concerned about cbd alone. >> the cbd craze that we're in i think is unprecedented really in the history of medicine. it's a compound that has gotten way ahead of any research to support the claims that are being made. >> abrams was part of the team of doctors in 2017 with the national academy of sciences that did what is considered the most comprehensive review of all the studies done on the benefits of cannabis. >> there are only about five in the medical literature studies looking at the therapeutic benefits of cbd. >> not only are there few studies, the studies that we

have are not very good quality. >> and there's hardly any research at all for the benefits of all those wellness products in stores. >> there's very little for a lot of these things. but the potential side effect, particularly for low doses, episodically is pretty low. >> might help, can't hurt. why not? that's why so many people use cbd, and it's something we've heard for years since our investigation first began. >> whoa. >> and now as we keep digging, we are learning that it could sometimes hurt. that story when we come back. behr presents: tough as walls. that's some great paint. ♪ that's some great paint. behr, ranked #1 in customer satisfaction with interior paints. right now get incredible savings on behr marquee interior. exclusively at the home depot.

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once. >> why did you do it? >> i didn't think there was any risk in trying it. i had never heard about anybody having any negative effects from it. so i thought that i had nothing to lose. i took two puffs off of it, the next thing i know, i'm feeling crazy and not thinking straight, not being able to move. >> within seconds jay appeared to have lost consciousness and started to have frightening hallucinations. his friend drove him to lexington medical center where he started having seizures. >> they said that i scored a 3. >> so 15 is basically normal and three is brain-dead essentially. >> yes, sir. you thought you might die? >> honestly, yeah. at the time i was seeing all this crazy stuff going on in my head, all these crazy

hallucinations going on. i thought that i was in hell and that i was already dead. >> what did the doctors say to you? >> they said that if i had gotten there much later then i wouldn't have been able to survive. >> he recovered physically from the trauma of it all. but make no mistake. he is still suffering mentally and asking lots of questions. what was in the cbd? what got him so sick? isn't cbd supposed to be safe? what jay would soon learn is that around the same time, people 2,000 miles away in salt lake city, utah, had also been getting sick from a similar substance. >> experts are warning about a spice product that is being sold at local smoke shops that concerns products labeled cbd oil. >> people started calling utah's poison control center and showing up in the emergency rooms saying they had used a liquid cbd oil. barbara, 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, they called me about it and sort of describe that this was supposedly cbd they had vaped. >> as more calls came in crouch knew something was wrong. >> it is the nonpsychoactive component of the cannabis plant. so the first thing we said is this is not consistent with cbd. i contacted the health department and said something's going on here. i don't know what it is, this doesn't make sense, but something is going on. >> everything pointed to the one thing most patients had in common. they had used a counterfeit product labeled yolo, cbd oil, similar to the one jay took. so crouch went to a local smoke shop to obtain an unopened bottle for the police. >> that gentleman showed me the product, and he asked me what my

tolerance for getting high was. it was clear to me that the overall intent was not necessarily therapeutic. >> is this product in the bottle something that's from an accredited laboratory or is it something that's made in somebody's garage? >> agent christopher with the state bureau of investigation was assigned to the case as part of a newly created task force. >> in the early phases we were just seeking to collect the samples, get them to the lab and determine what the substance actually was. when we had these tested by the state crime lab, there was absolutely no cbd in the actual bottles. it was entirely a different compound. >> that's a synthetic can ab-boyd that has been associated with fatalities in europe. >> eventually the centers for disease control and prevention got involved. roberta is an epidemiologist there. >> we were fortunate in this cluster that we didn't detect

any fatalities. >> when you talked to the victims, did you tell them what you guys had found? >> they were quite angry. they weren't expecting that when they walk into a shop that they're going to get a product that has been tainted. >> in the end law enforcement was unable to pinpoint where these toxic products were coming from. >> so ultimately with this we were never able to find out exactly who it was that was making it and distributing it. no criminal charges were filed. >> and that is a consequence of the cbd craze. in the middle of this circus, countless people got sick, and the people to blame simply disappeared. >> after it's all said and done, it shocked me too that with such a simple thing can do so much damage to me, almost killed me. >> that is not what should be happening to a product that you just buy, you know, at any

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effect so much faster than anything else. but if it's a tainted product, that's when it gets dangerous, even deadly. >> people are getting hurt. there's been a rash of poisonings from adulterated products. we have seen outbreaks in atlanta, we've seen them in the mid-atlantic. and so while they're isolated, it's a rash, it's symptomatic of something. >> something that she began looking into in 2017. >> these are -- when she started to hear rumblings about problems with vape pens and cbd. >> what's one of the places we decided to look for these drug forms. >> so we started monitoring what people are saying about electronic cigarettes. >> she started reading online posts and receiving alarming calls from people who thought they had been vaping cbd. >> it was a little bit scared, heart palpitations, shortness of

breath, audiovisual differences, right, maybe slightly hal us genic. oo the issue is that it was not the experience anticipated when you use cbd. >> there is only one way to find out. >> this is my research lab. >> do you call it the vape lab? >> well, originally we called it the vape lab. now this is fascinating. she wanted to know what was actually in the substance people were complaining about but also better understand how it would've been ingested into the body. >> we vape this for about how long we would expect a vaper to inhale. and so the drugs that are going to be in this aerosol will adhere to that tiny fiber. we are able to directly take that fiber and extract the drug off of that fiber and analyze it. >> and when they did, they didn't find any cbd. none.

>> it had a different synthetic cannabinoid in it, one that sent people to the emergency rooms, is known to have killed people, and we found some products that had that plus d renck xtramathorthan which is an active ingredient in over the counter cough syrup. >> it's certainly not what anyone was expecting. the problem is that as things stand out when you go buy cbd, things are not always what they seem. in 2017 as peace was doing her work so was another group of scientists. they had randomly selected 80 cbd products and sent them to labs. then they were blindly tested. it was the worst results i have seen. fully three quarters of the products were mislabeled. some had significant thc. some had no cbd. there was no consistency whatsoever. >> alarm bells started going

off. >> has it gotten better? >> we can't tell if it's gotten better. >> as i uncovered these stories and these studies of tainted products of mislabeled products, i couldn't help but wonder how could this happen and who is 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 of 2018 i told you about? well, that made cbd hemp technically legal. and that's where things got confusing. >> the farm bill also gave each state the ability to regulate it. and every state is in a different phase of regulating how they deal with cbd. and at the same time the food and drug administration is trying to understand do we regulate it only as a pharmaceutical? do we regulate it only as a supplement? can we regulate it as an otc or something else? ♪ >> when people say it feels like

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a lot of people here didn't even realize it until one day they caught wind of it. it was about two years ago that people started to talk about this strange smell wafting over time. >> the smell of marijuana says journalist robert jackman. >> what were they talking about? >> you had people saying it was giving them a headache. i think someone famously phoned the police. >> understandably cannabis was illegal in the u.k. but a couple of mile as way a pharmaceutical company called gw was given special approval to legally grow fields upon fields of medicinal cannabis. >> this wasn't top secret. it's not area 51 or anything like that but they didn't shout it from the rooftops. >> we got a rare peek at the first facility back in 2013. now in 2019 we've been invited back to their new one. there's a main gate up here that everyone has to clear through.

see the cameras up here? security dogs are on patrol. >> as we drive in, you can't miss the greenhouse. some estimate it to be the biggest stash of pharmaceutical-grade cannabis in the world. i met up with the founder of gw. dr. jeffrey guy. you've been busy. >> slightly larger than the last time you saw me. first time i visited you, i walked into a greenhouse that was about one acre, one football field. what were we looking at here? >> 47 acres. this facility at any one time i think has just under 300,000 plants here. so that's tens of thousands of patients. in the spring of 2018 gw released epidialects. it was the first time the fda

had approved a medication derived from the cannabis plant. it went through clinical trials. it went through peer review and lots of safety testing. none of which is seen with the cbd sold as a supplement. it's an issue that erks dr. guy. >> the reputation of the safety and efficacy of a product can be tainted by other products representing themselves to be the same. >> is the pharma route the only route that this should be going? >> it's the only route that we are involved in. >> a route they tightly control from the moment the first seed is planted starting with a pesticide-free greenhouse. >> in terms of controlling pests we use other pests to do that. so we have little sachays which contain mites and those mites have some of the best appetites. >> it makes its way three hours

southwest to the science park. >> this is literally a vault. it looks like a bank door here. >> david cooper is in charge of doing something no one else in the world has quite figured out t. >> we have pellets for cannibidiol. this is the extraction room. you are trying to extract the medicine, the active ingredients out of the plants? yes. i would say it's very challenging. the company's been in existence for 20 years. so i think that journey's quite a long journey. >> along the way they figured out how to start with a plant, break it down, extract just the cbd, formulate it to the right dosage, then bottle it. >> i guess it's fair to say there wasn't a book that said, hey, if you want to turn this into this, follow these steps.

definitely not. >> and then they still have to prove that it is safe. and effective. the holy grail of drug development. even if they're still not sure exactly how cbd works. >> what we now have is regulatory recognition of the benefits in certain conditions of these medicines. we have to evaluate better how they work under what circumstances, what might make them work better. the important thing is to provide that evidential proof you have to do research. >> and that point is probably the biggest difference between what is happening here versus the cbd craze sweeping the united states. >> so many of the cbd sort of people that we talk to say pharma route's expensive, it takes forever. we know this stuff works, it's safe. why do we have to wait for pharma? >> because we've had bad players. we really have to do something

harder about this than what we currently are. >> gw is hoping to develop more cbd and cannabis-based drugs for everything from anxiety to autism. and many others are trying as well. >> that's what we want, cbd for fda as a medicine. >> mount sinai's dr. jasmine herd has been helping develop products to address one of the most concerning issues of our time, the opioid epidemic. >> do i think that it can help everything in society? no. do i think it's a wonder drug? no. but do i think that it can alleviate certain disorders? absolutely. and that's why we need to find out. >> through research, which for years had been near impossible. >> the farm bill now allows us to work with hemp-derived cbd. that has been extremely helpful. or else we would have never been

able to conduct the large clinical trials that are needed. >> now there is a whole new wave of cbd research that is being funded. >> the stanley brothers are among them. while proof that cannabis works isn't yet required tomorrow cbd to be sold in stores or online, they want the data regardless. >> we live in a world, in a system that needs scientific validation. so we have to go responsibly about it. >> responsibly, because if you get it wrong, people like jay get sick and nearly die. responsibly because, remember, a little girl, charlotte, her life depends on it. that, when we come back.

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it's august 2019 at the cbd world expo in california. >> cbd. >> cbd. >> cbd. >> in the month since we began our investigation, the industry seems to have gotten even bigger, and dare i say even more outrageous.

protein powder, pet supplies, even sex products. >> he's like oh, my god, i'm feeling a tingling sensation. >> and consumer reports lisa gill continues to sound the alarm for better consumer protection. >> is it legal? does it work, and is it safe? >> it's a message she also abrought to the food and drug administration when the fda held open session on cbd. >> half the people told us they were extremely confident there was a regulation in place that required their cbd to be tested for safety and accuracy by outside labs but we know that is absolutely not true. for the fda to take this on, it shows they understand there's a regulatory gap. >> the fda seemed to be listening. in the past few months, they have been demanding more accountability, going after companies that make adulter rated products. >> do you think there's a path

forward in terms of regulation? >> yes, but we are years from it. i would like the fda to act faster, no doubt. >> we wanted to ask the fda ourselves but they declined several requests for an interview. for now while we wait for answers, it's left up to individual states. >> the damage rs of not regulating cbd products are vast and deep. >> andrew rig by runs utah's new program. after the outbreak, passed a bill in 2019 requiring that cbd products be registered with the state and manufactures provide a certificate of analysis. >> every single product that is going through the registration process with the state of utah is tested for can bah noid profiles, toxins, and pesticides. >> all products must include a list of ingredients and a qr code or web address. >> you could pull something off the shelf, snap the qr code, it will take me directly to the

website and have access to the certificate of analysis within a number of seconds. >> which brings up the most important thing you should do if you're shaping for cbd. >> ask for the certificate of analysis. it shows the different compounds in the product including thc as well as solvents and contaminants. you want that to come up zero. we can see how much thc is present. >> all cbd products will have at least trace levels of thc. >> this can accumulate in a person's body. thc is not immediately metabolized and it can build up. for anybody that's taking a drug test, that drug test can register very low levels of thc in the body. >> yes, you heard that right. you could test positive for thc even if you're just using cbd products. >> the studies that we've looked

at, you can see that even low levels of thc after five days can start to register. >> it's another cautionary cbd tale and yet another reason to be an educated consumer. read the labels. look for a certificate of analysis. and remember if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. >> they make crazy flames, that's a red flag. >> oh, walk away. >> walking away from cbd? it's something the wilsons did. remember vivian and her family moved across the country and changed their lives for cbd like so many people. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> we came out here for cbd and you want to believe that it's going to be the cure. >> and when it was clear it wasn't a cure for vivian, they did something still considered taboo. they started giving her thc. >> we would see people who would be like i don't want thc, that's bad. >> but we kept her on thc, and she just blossomed.

if we really truly want to get the full benefit of cannabis, there's just so much more out there than cbd. >> it really got us wondering, at this time with all the attention on cbd, what about the rest of the plant? remember, cannabis is made up of at least 60 potentially therapeutic chemicals called canha bah noids. >> i think the cbd thing did do damage to the progress of full spectrum cannabis being taken as serious as cbd is. thc has been demonized once again. this word non-psychoactive has gotten to lawmakers and everyone's heads. so now it's an erroneous thought to think that cbd only is the silver bullet. it's not. >> she's happy and outside. this is her jam. >> and while cbd has certainly saved the life of this little girl, patient zero for the cbd

craze -- >> did you ever think you would be doing this? >> never. i never thought i would be biking with her at 12 years old. >> paige is hopeful that charlotte's story doesn't represent the end of the cannabis plant but just the beginning. >> didn't really want to talk about the future last time. but how about now? >> i have my hopes that we'll have just so much more data and research to pull from. just because charlotte uses a high cbd hemp, that doesn't mean thc is the devil. >> there's no question cannabis and cbd can be a medicine. it's a plant that can heal sometimes when nothing else has. >> let's do a little gardening here. >> we have seen the stories. we have unearthed the research. >> what do we have here? >> it deserves the respect of any medicine and the regulation. it should come with the promise that while it may not always help, it should certainly never

hurt even in the midst of a cbd craze. >> there's no question americans are stressed out. and for many the quickest path to relief has been a tiny pill. >> my doctor told me about klonopin. i toetsed it took away my