. >> whether it's cannabidiol in hurd's lab or cannabis prescribed by dr.dicine. an idea shot down time and time again by the country's top law enforcement official. >> i'm afraid that the public is not properly educated on some of the issues related to marijuana. >> what would you say to the attorney general? >> i would say he's wrong. and i think that he needs to be educated. if he came and spent a week with me in my clinic i think i could probably convince him otherwise. >> education and understanding, the same goals mike james has by going public with his story. early word from the nfl is that they only give therapeutic use exemptions for drugs that are fda approved. cannabis, of course, is not. but the league is still considering it as is the nfl players union, which has already been looking at cannabis as part of the initiative to study pain and the best therapies for it. executive director d. maurice smith. >> our job is to find the best medical science to support your therapeutic use exemption. what i would say to him and every nfl player, our job i

was particularly interested in an overseas study that said oils made from a cannabis compound, cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive element in marijuana, seemed to be effective in reducing seizures a friend put page in touch with a grower. together, they made the oil for charlotte. >> she is catatonic in a wheelchair, on oxygen, on a feeding tube and i put it in her feeding tube, the oil. in a measured amount, very low dose to start and just waited to see if it would work. and she stopped seizing. so, she didn't have a seizure for seven days. didn't have 300 seizures that week. nothing else had ever done that >> time out. she is having 300 seizures a week. you think she's going to die, right? and you introduce this -- for the very first time, and it just stops? >> yep. her seizures stop and she didn't have a side effect. >> reporter: that was then. >> where are you going? up the trail? >> reporter: this is now. >> what are you doing? [ screaming ] >> reporter: that squeal of joy is from the now-8-year-old charlotte, or charlie, as her family calls her, speeding through the pine trees of colorad

the active ingredient is cannabidiol or cbd, from the marijuana plant. >> it represents a chapter inates for epilepsy. >> reporter: dr. orrin devinsky is a lead physician in the research. >> many of these children and young adults had significant reductions in their most severe and dangerous seizures. >> reporter: side effects may include tiredness, decreased appetite, and diarrhea. the drug does not cause a marijuana high. >> for us, having a day or two days a week where she doesn't have seizures or she just has one when she goes to sleep at night is a relatively good day for us. >> reporter: dtoye. john schiumo, cbs news, new york. >>> president trump is set to posthumously award a world war ii hero from kentucky. the nation's highest military honor today. pauline conner will accept the medal of honor on behalf of her late husband, garlin conner. he received three purple hearts. in 1944 he snuck out of the hospital to return to the front lines in france. from inside a ditch and under constant enemy fire he communicated where comrades should fire saving countless american lives. >>>