getting the oil for the children, health-wise, everybody is on board with that. we are from fairfax, virginia. reporter: this was the core group, beth and patrick collins and their daughter, jennifer, who suffers from jeavons syndrome, another extreme form of epilepsy. and jennifer has a statement, but she is a little nervous, so i m going to read it for her. we came down to the capitol today to lobby for medical marijuana. reporter: rounding out the group, theresa elder, her daughter, ashley, and her son, tommy, now 22. he wasn t supposed to make it to his third birthday. the hope for all these families was that an oil extracted from a marijuana plant might help when all other medications had failed. so you, as a group, get together and say well, we have got to get the law changed in virginia. right. did anybody say, well, that s crazy, cause it s never gonna happen? outsiders. oh, yeah, all the outsiders said, no way, it will never happen. and why? because it s
right now, we make our whole plant extract with the plant. we cultivate it in the field. we grow it until it flowers. we harvest it dry and bring it back to the lab to do an extraction on it that turns into our charlotte s web oil. would you call that a marijuana plant or a hemp plant? a hemp plant. reporter: distinction that the stanley brothers and everyone that works for them makes between hemp and marijuana is important to understand. a botanist would tell you the plants are the same, but according to the federal farm bill of 2014, a plant with less than .3% of thc, the ingredient that gets high, is hemp. so, this is all hemp. it has lower than .3% thc. lower than .3? .3. that s right. but it has a naturally very high amount of cbd. reporter: cbd is the chemical compound some believe helps people with epilepsy. when you look at this plant, what do you see? i see beauty. i see wonderment. i see incredible opportunity.
on the street. it s not. these are cannabanoids that are being tested for research and clinical studies that have for example no intoxicating effects. the marijuana plant has over 100 cannabanoids, it s not just thc, the one that produces the high. it s other compounds that being studied in regard to potential beneficial effects, for pain, for treating the opioid addiction itself a and other symptoms. said we lack sufficient outcome data. is he right in that regard? absolutely. i completely agree. and that s the whole issue. an epidemic, we need more information. we need everybody at the table. we need much more dedication and resources to coming up with alternative strategies.
something audacious, convince the state legislature to make legal room for a very specific medical marijuana. if it was just a matter of getting the oil for the children, health-wise, everybody is on board with that. we are from fairfax, virginia. reporter: this was the core group, beth and patrick collins and their daughter, jennifer, who suffers from jeavons syndrome, another extreme form of epilepsy. and jennifer has a statement, but she is a little nervous, so i m going to read it for her. we came down to the capitol today to lobby for medical marijuana. reporter: rounding out the group, theresa elder, her daughter, ashley, and her son, tommy, 22. he wasn t supposed to make it to his third birthday. the hope for all these families was that an oil extracted from a marijuana plant might help when all other medications had failed. so you, as a group, get together and say well, we have got to get the law changed in virginia. right. did anybody say, well, that s
what do you do with this heart? right now, we make our whole plant extract with the plant. we cultivate it in the field. we grow it until it flowers. we harvest it dry and bring it back to the lab to do an extraction on it that turns into our charlotte s web hemp oil. would you call that a marijuana plant or a hemp plant? a hemp plant. reporter: distinction that the stanley brothers and everyone that works for them makes between hemp and marijuana is important to understand. a botanist would tell you the plants are the same, but according to the federal farm bill of 2014, a plant with less than .3% of thc, the ingredient that gets high, is hemp. so, this is all hemp. it has lower than .3% thc. lower than .3? .3. that s right. but it has a naturally very high amount of cbd. reporter: cbd is the chemical compound some believe helps people with epilepsy. when you look at this plant, what do you see? i see beauty.