main ingredients thc, that s the psychoactive part that makes you high, and cbd, also called cannabidiol. it s the cbd that scientists think modulates electric and chemical activity to help quiet the excessive activity in the brain that causes seizures. dr. julie holland is the editor of the pot book, a complete guide to cannabis. for a long time the work on cannabis and epilepsy was sort of inconclusive. maybe it works. maybe it doesn t. they couldn t quite figure it out. it s only when they really started separating thc from cbd that they saw definitively, yes, cbd seems to really stop seizures. so the figges needed to find something that was rare, a strain of marijuana that was low in thc. of course, they didn t want charlotte getting stoned. but also high in cbd to treat her seizures. and that wouldn t be easy. dispensaries and growers, they make their money off strains that are high in thc. i m joel.
marijuana is made up of two main ingredients, thc, that s the psychoactive part that makes you high, and cbd, also called cannabidiol. it s the cbd that scientists think regulates electric activity to help quiet the activity in the brain that causes the seizures. dr. julie holland is the editor of the pot book, a complete guide to cannabis. for a long time, the work on cannabis and epilepsy was sort of inconclusive. maybe it works. maybe it doesn t. they couldn t quite figure it out. it s only when they really started separating thc from cbd that they saw definitively, yes, cbd really seems to really stop seizures. so the figges needed to find something that was rare, a strain of marijuana that was low in thc. of course, they didn t want charlotte getting stoned. but also high in cbd to treat her seizures. and that wouldn t be easy. dispensaries and growers, they make their money off strains that are high in thc. i m joel. i m josh.
which they would take it us to court ordered any way and the possibility of them removing landon from my care would come into play at that point. how is it going? so she found a lawyer willing to take on the case. they said they were willing to work with us. they said they were willing to alter the chemo plan. they did not do that at all. that s not surprising. while many mainstream doctors support the use of cannabis to offset the side effects of chemo, as things stand now, no doctor would recommend cannabis instead of chemo, myself included. but there s a growing body of promising research. dr. julie holland is the author of the pot book. it turns out it fights the cancer itself. you re a doctor. you have talked to researchers. you re saying marijuana can kill cancer cells. i m saying that and there are many other researchers saying that too. we have samples from our treated mice. like san francisco researchers, pierre and shawn mcalister who said they have
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
to alter the chemo plan. they re not. they did not do that at all. reporter: that s not surprising. while many mainstream doctors do support the use of cannibis to offset the side effects of chemotherapy, as things stand now, no doctor would recommend cannibis 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 it actually fights the cancer itself. you re a doc. you ve studied this, talked to the researchers. 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 despre southbound and shawn mcallister, who say they ve seen first hand what the cannibis compound or cbd can do. in their lab, they use cbd to kill mice and human cancer cells. we asked the american cancer society what they thought about all of this.