The Soon-to-Be Famous Story of Sophie

Abby Epstein and Ricki Lake, the documentarians behind The Business of Being Born, will likely debut their new film Weed the People in late 2016. Described as an “unflinching look at the underground world of herbal medicine,” the movie follows families who turned to cannabis when traditional medicine offered little hope. One of the film’s principles is Sophie Ryan, diagnosed with a brain tumor while only months old, leaving her parents scrambling for any answers they might find. Desperate, the Ryan family said yes when the filmmakers wanted to give Sophie cannabis-based treatments and document the results. The film captures Sophie’s very first dose at just nine months old, and the results inspired Sophie’s mother, Tracy, to found CannaKids and SavingSophie.org to help other parents in similar situations. In the first of a two-part interview, Tracy Ryan tells what happened with Sophie and how her story shows that medicinal cannabis is not a...

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