the day that i spent with him, he had been smoking all day long. do you feel impaired at all? no, i don t. i feel normal. turns out when you test people who have a lot of experience with cannabis, you don t see many disruptions, but if you test people who have sort of limited history with cannabis, you can see some clear pronounced disruptions. of course, no one thinks that driving when using marijuana is a good idea, but what scientists can t answer is if there is a safe legal limit and people who use marijuana daily as a medicine should be able to drive. how impaired are they? what is more clear, though, the effect of marijuana on the young brain. what we see is a very big difference in people who begin to smoke prior to the age of 16
stanleys call the garden of eden. there s nothing like this in the world. this plant is 21% cbd and less than 1% thc. it took years of crossbreeding plants to get to this point. instead of breeding up the thc we ve bred down the thc and bred up the cbd, and people said, you re crazy. you know, who is going to smoke that? so why grow it then? well, the stanleys also believed in cbd s potential to treat many diseases. and they had seen it change lives before. i always had two strains. meet 19-year-old chaz moore. he uses many different strains of marijuana. many of them high in cbd to treat his rare disorder of the diaphragm. my abs lock up. that s why he is talking this way, almost speaking in hiccups, like he can t catch his breath. it s called myoclonus diaphragmatic flutter.
and those who smoke after age 16. what we call early versus later onset. gruber s brain scans show the white matter, those are the highways that help the brain communicate from one point to another are impaired in those who start smoking early. maybe that there s underlying white matter connectivity differences. that s your concern, it sounds like, that those highways, those white matter highways are just more disrupted in people who start smoking early. that s what we see. perhaps not surprising given what we know about the young developing brain. that s a very delicate time in brain development, and that s not a good time to be taking any drugs. preliminary research shows that early onset smokers are slower at tasks, have lower iq s later in life, higher risk of strokes, and increased incidents of psychotic disorders. while these studies are not conclusive, some scientists are still concerned because in 2012 35% of high school seniors lit up, and that could mean a gener
after one dose, she stops breathing. and after two doses, her heart will stop. did you have to do cpr on her yourself? yes. i remember when her heart stopped and i had her pulse and i lost her pulse. there was nothing. the ambulance is on its way. she survived. you re okay. mommy is here. but that was fall of 2011. and charlotte was 5 years old. when things were at their worst, she just seizes all night. and the kids are sleeping in my room or next door. they can hear the seizure scream all night, 50 times a night. and chase would come in the morning and just misses her twin. and just hug her and rub her head and say i m so glad you survived through the night last night. matt had been deployed to afghanistan. and the only thing he could do to help was start scouring the internet. and he stumbled onto this video of a child using marijuana. so how is everything going? jamie had four days without a
your behaviors. there are tons of marijuana receptors in this region, and we think that marijuana, particularly in the novice, can disrupt all of those behaviors. an impairment that hart cautions could be dangerous. especially when driving. you may prematurely hit your brakes. you may prematurely hit the gas pedal. a wide range of things. you may make a turn without looking more carefully. look at this experiment done by cnn affiliate kiro in washington state. subjects smoke marijuana and then drove. one was a daily medical marijuana smoker and another an infrequent weekend smoker. relaxed and buzzed. the more the novice user smoked, the more trouble behind the wheel. watch yourself. watch yourself. but interestingly, the habitual smoker didn t have as much trouble. i wouldn t pull her off the road, no. not yet. and that s something i witnessed firsthand driving around with 19-year-old chaz moore.