New ‘Dateline’ to explore Charlotte’s Web, calls Colorado ‘a new Lourdes’

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“To these people, marijuana isn’t about getting high, it’s about getting well,” Harry Smith narrates in NBC’s “Dateline” episode about medical marijuana June 7.

“Growing Hope” chronicles the lives of children with intractable epilepsy, following three families from Virginia to Colorado. Their mission is to legalize CBD and THCA oils, compounds that come from the marijuana and hemp plants. The non-psychoactive strain of medicinal marijuana has shown promise in reducing chronic seizures.

The widely covered Charlotte Figi case and “Charlotte’s Web” gets another look here, filtered through the Virginia push — not for legalization but for permission to use the drug.

 

 

 

Smith returns to his Colorado home turf for this heart-wrenching documentary. “The state has become something of a new Lourdes,” he says. No Bob Marley posters, Smith says inside a cannabis oil lab, “just plants and science.”

Smith asks the Stanley brothers about...

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