heather jackson's son zaki is one of them. >> zaki had these, he has a rare form of epilepsy known asse syndrome. by the time he was 5 years old he had had 500,000 seizures. don't usually start crying this early, actually. it's an emotional day because he's 16 months seizure free today, so i'm happy. it's a happy emotion. >> today zaki is talking walking, and being home schooled. his mom, heather jackson, is convinced it's due to an extract found in this controversial plant. >> this is where a lot of the plants are grown. there are approximately 3200 plants in this greenhouse. of those about 80% are charlotte's web. joel stanley runs one of the largest marijuana grows in the state of colorado. it's a family owned operation. the five family brothers went into business in 2008 under the medical marijuana laws passed in the rocky mountains state. jesse stanley supervises the marijuana lab. >> lot of failures lots of successes but we started growing to help cancer patients. from cancer it turned into multiple sclerosis, it turned into diabetes. >> soon a lest known plant compound caught t

joining me now, maggie jackson, author of "distracted." heather mcghee, president of demos.ch city podcast. let's start with this really incredible week-long series around boredom that has been going on. >> yeah. so what we did is asked people to take part in a one-week challenge and we every day gave them something to do with their phone in the hopes that it would actually let them be a little bit bored in their life. it occurred to me a few months ago, i'm never bored anymore, ever. >> i haven't been bored since '98. >> for me since 2007 which is when the smartphone came out. filling our faces with that screen has become a reflex for so many of us. so the idea was every day try something and see if that maybe sparks what's called the default mode. this is a network of your brain where you start to do some of your most important thinking. you get bored, your body is not doing anything but then your brain goes and ait does this mind wandering and it does some of its most original thinking then. you can't do that if you're looking at your phone. so we did this for a week. we