Sanjay investigates "Weed" Pt. 2

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Sanjay Gupta examines the potential benefits of medical marijuana. Over 10 years, Dr. Gupta's reporting on the topic has produced six CNN documentaries and a seventh is in the works. In this episode, the very first of those CNN documentaries. Dr. Gupta travels the world and speaks to experts and patients looking for answers. What does marijuana do to you? What does it do to your kids? In the process of his reporting, Dr. Gupta made some discoveries of his own. This special report originally aired on CNN on August 11, 2013. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Sanjay.
0:02.9	You know, while we're working hard on the next season of Chasing Life, we decided to
0:06.7	share a documentary series on medical marijuana.
0:10.8	It's something that I've been working on over the last 10 years at CNN.
0:16.5	Last week you heard the first part of our very first documentary called Wheat, which was
0:21.4	from 2013.
0:23.7	This is now the second part of that special.
0:26.2	And we're going to begin by hearing about the truth and the science behind what's
0:30.5	being called a growing epidemic.
0:33.3	And then later, more about the first and youngest child to try marijuana in Colorado.
0:39.3	Charlotte Figgie.
0:49.6	This was the day Chaz Moore almost died.
0:52.9	Hump full of drugs like morphine, dilated, valium, to quiet a nonstop 48-hour attack.
0:59.6	I thought I was going to overdose and yeah, it was pretty bad.
1:05.0	At his bedside, his father Sean watched his son go from being catatonic to what he calls
1:10.7	high as a kite.
1:12.2	How high are you on the morphine?
1:13.8	I'm not high.
1:16.4	I've watched friends of mine die from taking the same drugs that he took.
1:21.4	You see, Sean was a drug addict and he had struggled for decades to get clean.
1:26.2	It was scary.
1:27.6	It was really important for him not to take these drugs if he could avoid them.
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