Tonights installment of our weeklong series gone to pot, the parents who want to take their child off chemo because they believe marijuana is curing their childs cancer. Well look at the medical evidence. We begin tonight keeping them honest with the breaking news. What started as a local traffic story became a statewide scandal and now has gone national. At the center of it all, the worlds busiest bridge and the man seen by many as the republican partys leading hope to win the white house in 2016. The bridge in question is the george washington. The man is Chris Christie. The governor the new jersey. The scandal involves lane closings from the city of ft. Lee, new jersey, on to the bridge that tied up traffic so badly, ambulance crews were complaining about being able to respond to emergencies and school buses were delayed for hours. Now, the allegations that Christies Office and potentially, potentially the governor himself, ordered those lane closings to snarl traffic as political p
surprising. while many mainstream doctors do support the use of cannabis to offset the side effects of chemotherapy, as things stand now, no doctor would recommend cannabis instead of chemo, myself included. but there is a growing body of promising research. dr. julie holland is the editor of the pot book. it turns out that it actually fights the cancer itself. reporter: you re a doc. you ve studied this, you ve talked to the researchers. right. reporter: you re saying marijuana can kill cancer cells? i m saying that and there are many other researchers who are saying that, too. we ve got lung samples from our treated mice reporter: like san francisco researchers pierre desprez and shawn mcallister, who say they have seen firsthand what the cannabis compound cbd can do. in their lab, they used cbd to kill mice and human cancer cells. we asked the american cancer society what they thought about all of this, and in a statement to cnn, they said, there is no