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Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield and today we're going to talk about something pretty controversial.

And before I jump into exactly what that is, I want to let you know that I have a video for you

that delves a little bit more deeply into the story that you're about to hear.

And it's the story of Sadie.

And Sadie is an 11-month-old baby who suffered from 300 seizures every day.

And she was given something specific and something relatively controversial to control these

seizures. And I'm going to put a video of what happened next in the show notes because it blew

my mind. And I'm going to put the show notes up for this podcast episode where you can view

that video over at bengreenfieldfitness.com slash weed. And my podcast guest today, Dr. James

Smoshenberger. And I'm really going to hope I'm pronouncing that last name correctly,

is the executive producer of a new documentary called The Science of Weed. And this documentary

is meant to put the truth and the real facts and the hands of people who need marijuana-based medicine

so that they can make informed decisions about utilizing cannabis, not as a recreational drug

per se, but as an effective treatment for health issues. So we're going to be talking all about

this today with James and also about this new documentary that just came out. So

James, first of all, thanks for coming on the call. And second, can you tell us a little bit more

about the story of this baby Sadie and what exactly happened?

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