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A look inside the quasi-legal, science free world of medical marijuana for children from TIME's Red Border Films_  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Jan 26, 2015 8:25 PM UTC  Medical Marijuana Medical Marijuana Colin Brynn—Getty Images  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Jan 26, 2015 8:25 PM UTC In an update to its 2004 policy statement on marijuana legalization, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) now says that in some cases, children with certain debilitating illnesses should be allowed derivatives of marijuana to ease their suffering. The group of pediatricians announced the change in position today in a [statement](http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2015/01/20/peds.2014-4146) reaffirming its opposition to the legalization of marijuana. It now includes several exceptions for “compassionate use” in children dealing with debilitating or life-limiting conditions. Compounds found in pot, known as cannabinoids, have become a method of stopping seizures for children suffering from epilepsy. “Given that some children who may benefit from cannabinoids cannot wait for a meticulous and lengthy research process, the Academy recognizes some exceptions should be made for compassionate use in children,” the organization said in a [press release](http://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/American-Academy-of-Pediatrics-Reaffirms-Opposition-to-Legalizing-Marijuana-for-Recreational-or-Medical-Use.aspx). **Read More:** [Pot Kids: Inside the Quasi-Legal, Science-Free World of Medical Marijuana for Children](http://time.com/pot-kids/) The organization stopped short of explicitly endorsing the practice and called for further research into its effectiveness. “While cannabinoids may have potential as a therapy for a number of medical conditions, dispensing marijuana raises concerns regarding purity, dosing and formulation, all of which are of heightened importance in children,” said policy statement co-author William P. Adelman in the press release. The organization maintained its steadfast opposition to recreational marijuana use, arguing that allowing its use for adults is more likely to lead to increased use among teenagers. “Just the campaigns to legalize marijuana can have the effect of persuading adolescents that marijuana is not dangerous, which can have a devastating impact on their lifelong health and development,” said Seth D. Ammerman, another author of the statement, in the release. ### Go Inside the Harvest of Colorado's Most Controversial Marijuana Strain  Charlotte's Web grows on the Stanley brother's farm near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014\. The Stanley Brothers have developed a popular strain of cannabis that has been found to be helpful in reducing seizures in some children. Charlotte's Web is high in a compound called cannabidiol (CBD) and low in tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) the compound that causes a high. Matt Nager for TIME  Charlotte's Web grows on the Stanley brother's farm near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  From left: Zachary Sobol, Michael Atchley, and Jared Stanley walk to the farm to prepare for harvest of Charlotte's Web near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Rows of Charlotte's Web await harvest at the Stanley brother's farm near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Jared Stanley helps in the harvest of Charlotte's Web on the Stanley brother's farm near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Colin Sparks searches for seeds during the harvest of Charlotte's Web on the Stanley brother's Charlotte's Web farm near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Discarded leaves of Charlotte's Web at a farm near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Tim Knight helps in the harvest of Charlotte's Web on the Stanley brother's farm near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Rows of Charlotte's Web await travel to a drying facility after being harvested on a farm near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Zachary Sobol catches a ride on a trailer to the Stanley brother's farm during harvest of Charlotte's Web near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Rows of Charlotte's Web await travel to a drying facility after being harvested from a farm near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  One of the Stanley brother's greenhouses growing cannabis near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Zachary Sobol hangs rows of Charlotte's Web to dry after harvest in Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Penn Mattison, left, and Zachary Sobol, right, hang rows of Charlotte's Web to dry after being harvested from a farm near Wray, Colo. on Sept. 22, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  The Stanley brothers' new company laboratory in Boulder, Colo. on Sept. 23, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  A petri dish full of cannabis explants await transfer and transplanting at the Stanley brothers' lab in Boulder, Colo. on Sept. 23, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Molecular plant biologist and lab manager Bear Reel awaits the cooling of agar to help induce rooting of transplanted cannabis plants at the Stanley brothers' company laboratory in Boulder, Colo. on Sept. 23, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  The lab notebook of molecular plant biologist and lab manager Bear Reel at the Stanley brothers' company laboratory in Boulder, Colo. on Sept. 23, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  A flask of agar cools before explants of hemp are transplanted to help induce rooting and new growth at the Stanley brothers' company laboratory in in Boulder, Colo. on Sept. 23, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME  Tissue cutter technician Meg Regan holds a vial of explants before sanitizing and transplanting at the Stanley brothers' laboratory in Boulder, Colo. on Sept. 23, 2014. Matt Nager for TIME ## Transcript [00:28] We don't wanna break the law. We [00:32] don't wanna do this, we have to do this. Cannabis [00:38] extract is illegal. And that's what my product is. I never [00:43] stop thinking about the legal issues. As I cross into [00:46] every state, that's breaking a lot of federal law. I [00:50] don't believe that any of the law enforcement agencies [00:52] want to lock out what is potentially a last treatment [00:55] option for these patients. [ NOISE ] It's okay. It's okay. [00:55] There still [01:02] are many, many children and adults with epilepsy who [01:06] can't be controlled with existing therapies. I cannot [01:10] recommend using a medical marijuana product. It was [01:13] worth it because it helps my daughter. If it's helping [01:17] kids, why isn't it. We thought, well, why can't you do it? [01:21] [ MUSIC ] [ NOISE ] [ MUSIC ] This [01:38] is about as big of a piece as we'd wanna cut at once. [01:42] This is our first day of harvest. [ INAUDIBLE ] in here, [01:43] that's the problem. Say we get this big girl [ NOISE ] [01:43] Each plant [01:48] is a whole- plant extract, so we have to cut the plant. [01:52] And [01:55] final, [01:57] so we'll kinda put the next plant about right here. So [02:00] as long as we all know. The size that we're cutting for [02:02] has to dry, fully dry before we're able to process it in [02:06] the lab. Now you're through that. Now you can start on [02:09] the next one. Here is the next one. I've got a, I've [02:14] got a really nice one We stepped onto the field June [02:18] 3rd. Is that your sandal? I'll fill this [02:22] one up. Perfect. We planted [02:26] 17 acres with an estimated 36, 000 plants. [ MUSIC ] [02:34] We'll likely serve several thousand patients with this. [02:37] These grow big. [ MUSIC ] Which is good. My name is [02:41] Penn Madison and I am the head manager here at [02:45] Stanley Brothers Social Enterprises. You need to change [02:46] hands. [ LAUGH ] [ INAUDIBLE ] And [02:51] we grow medical hemp. [ MUSIC ] We [03:01] have a little girl, Nellie, who's two and a half. Yeah. Is [03:01] that one hurting? Are you getting [03:05] frustrated? [03:07] Huh? [03:09] She is intractable apolopsy. That's a debilitating form [03:13] of epilepsy. One in 26 people will have epilepsy in [03:16] their lifetime. Three million Americans have epilepsy. [03:20] 50 million people world wide have epilepsy. It is one of [03:24] the most common neurologic disorders. Yeah. We had [03:32] no idea wether or not medical help would work. What [03:36] we did know is that, everything else we had tried had [03:38] not. We'd seen specialist all over the country. We [03:43] tried multiple anti- epileptic drugs. Hm- mm. [03:48] Yeah? I [03:57] would say in the last year too we have seen an [03:59] increase in children that are here from out of state. [04:03] That have been brought by families to try variants of [04:07] medical marijuana. [ MUSIC ] [04:11] The laws in Tennessee didn't allow us to have [04:15] this delivered to us there. It didn't allow this to be an [04:19] option to give it to her there. [ MUSIC ] So the option [04:24] of moving to Colorado to pursue medical marijuana [04:28] was a viable option for us. And so we chose to do that. [04:31] [ NOISE ] [04:34] [ MUSIC ] [04:37] We start with tissue culture plants. They'll be grown for [04:41] their entire season. When [04:44] they're ripe they'll be harvested. Dried. Once [04:51] they're cured right they will come back to the lab for [04:53] extraction. In which we will extract all of the valuable [04:57] parts of the plant into a fine oil. Then that oil [05:01] is used to create specific dilutions of a dietary [05:05] supplement. That they'll be [05:17] called Charlotte's [05:25] Web. [ MUSIC ] At nine [05:46] months old she was sleeping 20 hours a day. Kids that [05:50] age like to grab things. Swat at things. We would have [05:54] things hanging over her she would have no interest. [05:57] Finally at about her nine month appointment. After we [05:58] were able to find a neurologist to see us relatively [06:01] quickly. He was fairly confident that [ INAUDIBLE ] [06:04] spasms. She was barely able to grow in function, [06:07] because she was having upwards of 200 seizures a [06:10] day. Seizures are incredibly [06:14] debilitating but there's also a lot of other things that [06:17] can happen with a cognitive problems. Depression, [06:20] anxiety [ MUSIC ] [06:23] Hello! [06:26] Hello! [06:28] [ UNKNOWN ] [06:31] Three [06:34] times [06:36] a [06:39] day. [06:41] [ UNKNOWN ] [06:44] I see patients here two days a [06:48] week on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and these are the [06:50] consultation days, and also days where people come [06:53] to pick up their medicine. In order to be ready for [06:56] those two days, I spend. It's probably about another [07:00] four days in lab making oil. Or with my brothers at the [07:04] girl facilities. He was our first state licensee for [07:08] the charlotte's web products. And it's fitting that he is a [07:11] parents of a child with [ UNKNOWN ] syndrome. I am [07:14] involved in this industry because of my daughter who is [07:17] ten years old now and her name is Emily. Who has [07:20] intractable epilepsy. [ NOISE ] It's okay. [07:25] It's okay. It's okay. [07:30] At her worst times, she's had a hundred to a hundred [07:34] and fifty seizures a day. We've been told by a couple [07:38] of doctors that we have to go home and enjoy our [07:40] daughter as much as we can cause there is really not [07:42] much hope left or anything else that will help so I spent [07:46] a lot of time in California trying to find this medicine [07:49] and you know I didn't have a lot of luck .>> We [07:52] started doing our own research to see. What type of [07:54] side effects? But why not try it. I just put my daughter [07:58] on a medication that could've killed her. If it doesn't [08:01] work, you put it to rest and we can move on with our [08:04] lives. But if it does, nothing else has. [08:10] Not everybody can come to Colorado, so there has to [08:14] be something. Else we can do. My daughter [08:18] was not doing good. She was having seizures, and I [08:20] knew that there could be something that helps her, but [08:22] I can't bring it to California, or I can't transport it. so it [08:25] was very frustrating. It's okay. [08:29] In the state where we live they do have a medical [08:32] marijuana program. However, even if you were able to [08:35] get through all of the bureaucratic hoops they have set [08:38] up, the appropriate product for our daughter is [08:42] not available. [ MUSIC ] Here I am, desperate [08:46] father. I have to help my daughter. I need to have this [08:49] for my daughter. So what is it gonna take? One thing [08:52] led to another. How're you guys doing? [ INAUDIBLE ] [08:53] We're doing okay. I am now the director of the [08:56] foundation's California chapter. And that was the only [09:00] way to do this legally. [ MUSIC ] [09:05] I wish. When Emily started having seizures, [09:11] ten years ago, somebody in this position. Existed. [09:15] Where somebody would sit down across from me and [09:17] say, this is what failed for people. This is what didn't. [09:20] This is what others are doing. We were scared, one, to [09:24] pick up and move and leave everything behind, but we [09:28] weren't sure it was gonna work. Even in Colorado, the [09:31] waiting list for Charlotte's Web oil is quite long, so it's [09:34] not like you can just. Fly or drive to Colorado, pick it [09:37] up and come home. Which apart from violating federal [09:40] and state laws, It's just you can't do it. [09:50] In California we found, an apartment, that we could do [09:54] a short term rental. When we started giving her the [09:56] marijuana in the first couple of doses even, we saw [09:59] changes. She became more verbal. She became a lot [10:04] more attentive. She was a lot more awake than she [10:06] had been. [ LAUGH ] After the summer we wanted to [10:10] give a longer time for our trial. So we made a decision [10:14] that we were going to. Bring a supply back with us. [10:18] [ MUSIC ]. They were able to identify a supplier in [10:21] California my understanding who had what appears to [10:24] be a very good product of oil high in CBD and they [10:28] didn't want to fly with it, so apparently drove cross [10:31] country to get their child this medication. Well [10:35] I never stopped thinking about the legal issues. As I [10:35] cross into every state I tried to make sure [10:40] to be very careful. Any time I was tired I took a break. [10:45] My daughter is doing great. She's now down to about [10:48] 20 a day. She's far more interactive with the world [10:52] around her. She has far more enjoyment. She's not [10:56] playing beside the world, she's playing in the world [10:59] where she lives now. And that, to me, is everything. [11:03] Fortunately, that child is doing quite well. And they've [11:06] gone through a huge pilgrimage to get that oil and, [11:10] what appears to be, help their daughter. [ MUSIC ] [11:16] I actually haven't heard anything about you know, [11:18] negative potential side effects in the media. And I think [11:22] it's a really important thing for parents to know is this [11:25] is not risk free. It's not something I told them to do but [11:29] when they said they were determined to do it, I was [11:31] supportive, as their physician, to say listen, I will be [11:34] here to guide you on helping to adjust the therapy and [11:38] monitor the other drugs and, and the girls' epilepsy. [11:41] Overall, at least so far, our experience here at [11:44] Children's Colorado has been that, that only about a [11:47] third of families are really reporting that they see much [11:50] of an improvement in their children. And of those [11:53] children when we look at brain waves, none of those [11:56] are we really seeing the kind of EEG change that we [11:59] would expect from a really effective medication. We [12:02] also don't understand how marijuana products will [12:05] interact with other medicines these children are on. [12:09] Concerning things that we have seen in general, her [12:11] seizures have gotten worse. Severe enough to require [12:14] them to go into our intensive care unit. We absolutely [12:19] don't have the scientific data and I think if I could make [12:21] one point to the parents, it is that you need [12:26] science. The other concern with the artisanal [12:30] products is that we don't always know what's in them. [12:34] They vary from batch to batch, they vary from grower [12:37] to grower. [ MUSIC ] Unfortunately, [12:41] we're giving it out to large numbers of very vulnerable [12:45] people like children. Without knowing what the correct [12:47] dose it. Without knowing what kind of epilepsy it's [12:51] going to work for. Most of my critics, especially in the [12:55] medical field, are critics that are criticizing lack of [12:58] research. I blame them. That's their job. You're a [13:03] researcher. You're a scientist. You're a doctor. Why [13:05] don't you research this? These procedures are gaining. [13:07] Something stronger. The schedule one listing for [13:11] marijuana has made it much more difficult to do [13:14] research on marijuana, there is no question about that. [13:17] Really all hemp products lie in a gray area. We [13:22] are faced with a bit of a moral dilemma. We do have [13:26] some legal area to operate here. But at the same time, [13:29] that's up for interpretation. [ MUSIC ] [13:33] The [13:35] supply is gonna run out, because we only brought back [13:37] six months. There are options. Realm of Caring is [13:40] talking about challenging the law and sending [13:44] medication across state lines. Right, one more on the [13:46] end and let's get it there. This product, this fall. [13:50] Coming from hemp regulations, this will be our first [13:53] time to actually be able to ship this to patients across [13:56] the country. If it works, it would make a huge [13:58] difference because then we could have it delivered [14:01] right to our house. Cannabis [ UNKNOWN ] [14:05] and that's what my product is. The last. Drug [14:09] enforcement agency position that I read stated that [14:14] hemp products made for human consumption, which [14:17] have any detectable THC in them, are technically a [14:21] violation of federal law. Now, however, they go on to [14:23] say that they realize that all of these products exist [14:26] throughout grocery store shelves throughout America. [14:29] At this point in time I don't feel like the legal landscape [14:32] has us such that people are going to come in with guns [14:36] and handcuffs and try and shut down something that is [14:40] providing hope and options for people. [14:46] We don't want to break the law. We don't want to do [14:49] this, we have to do this. How can kids not get [14:54] what they need? I mean [14:59] anyone you talk to about it, it's like, it's ridiculous. If [15:04] it's helping kids, why isn't it. Reba [15:08] like why can't you do it? 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