All language subtitles for The Magic Plant 2020 1080p WEBRip x265-RARBG

[piano music]

[birds chirping]

[Pete]
As long as I can remember,

I've always had
a thirst for life.

What makes us
vibrant and healthy?

I've scoured the planet
for the best ingredients.

Cooked
for over a million.

And tested
all the supposed magic pills,

only to find
empty promises.

But I've heard tall tales
of this wonder plant.

[Nora] We co-evolved
with this plant.

We know that
it has been a part

of our medicinal landscape

for probably
tens of thousands of years.

Plants have always
been a source of medicine.

And they continue somewhat
indirectly to be that way.

I honestly think that cannabis

is here
for us to heal.

And I think generations
before we were using it.

[Pete] It feeds people,
it clothes them.

heals them
and even provides shelter.

It's world-transforming.

The medicine itself,
the plant itself

has all of these uses
that can heal the world.

It is such
a fascinating medicine

that we're only starting
to scrape the surface of.

[Pete] It inspires
religions and opens minds.

I was educated
by my patients

to teach me
what cannabis could do.

[Pete] It evokes
controversy and debate.

There is something
really, really wrong

with a system where there
is a product sitting there

that can save
people's lives.

And the government
just won't let you have them.

It seems crazy

that we allow people
to consume tobacco

and we know some
of the really significant

harms of alcohol
in our community.

And yet,
we say that we can't ban,

we can't stop adults
from making those decisions.

But we do say this
for cannabis.

[Pete]
It is the source

of a love-hate relationship
with humanity.

For longer than
any other cultivated crop.

I'm not one to say that
this plant is a cure all

and it's going to cure
every single disease out there

and it's going to work
for every single person.

But if it helps even
put your symptoms at bay,

that's something huge
for a lot of people.

We have patients. .

that are off their meds that
they were on

for 10 years,
20 years, 30 years.

It has been known for
probably four thousand years

that cannabis
treats epilepsy.

And I've been a family doctor
for 47 years.

I've never seen
a medicine work so effectively

and is so safe.

And how do we use it
to wake up?

How do we use it
to know ourselves better?

This isn't just
about profit,

but this is about
healing the community.

The entire industry
needs a reeducation.

But the entire world also needs
a reeducation on cannabis

because for 80 years,
we have not been allowed

to study the plant.

[Pete] Can one plant

possibly live up
to all this hype?

If so,
it just might be

the most miraculous plant
on the planet.

I know for a fact that

I would not be alive
without cannabis.

[calming music]

[ocean roaring]

[Pete] So I set off
across the globe

to meet
the leading experts

in health,
medicine and cannabis.

[traffic noise]

[David] It's been a medicine
for more than 4000 years.

And only was not a medicine

from about
1942 to 1996.

I mean,
if we go back to the first

Materia Medica
ever written,

according
to Chinese oral tradition,

that's the Ping Chao Cheng,

which was allegedly written
in 2637 B. C.

And cannabis was in the
Ayurvedic Materia Medica,

around 1100 B. C.

And it was in the
United States Pharmacopeia

from the 1850s
until 1942.

And then until
quite recently,

all of our pharmacopeia
has been derived from nature

for pretty much as long
as we have walked the planet.

And there has been
this castigation

of anything derived
from nature

is coming
from alternative medicine,

holistic medicine,
integrative medicine.

And what do they know?

Unfortunately,
now with medical marijuana,

oddly enough,
that's what opened the door.

Hi, Pete,
welcome to my place.

This is our clinic.

Come on in
and let me show you the place.

[Pete] So talk to me about
cannabinoid medicine.

What does that mean?

What does it mean?
To me, it means life.

And they frickin forgot
to teach it to me.

I'm a little perturbed.

And I've gone through
so many years of education

and I have been
learning about

the endocannabinoid system
on my own

for about ten years.

And only about
15 percent of medical schools

even teach it now.

So this is very,
very important to me

that we learn about
a respiratory system,

a cardiac system,
an endocrine system.

And yet, a system
that's 600 million years old,

we weren't taught
about it.

[Dr. Teh] We've evolved
with this plant.

For human history,
the plant's been here with us.

And whether or not we've
changed because of the plant

or the plant changed because
of us, that doesn't matter.

But we interact together.

So how is it intelligent?

It works on different
areas of our body. .

through various mechanisms.

But the same way
that our gut talks to our brain

and tells us what it needs
to absorb and send to our body

and the other way around,
what the brain needs,

it tells that little bacteria
in your gut.

I believe
that the plant

has a similar
communication with us.

[Nora] It actually
is the system

that regulates
everything else.

It regulates hormones,
neurotransmitters,

immune function, cytokine
production, everything.

And as we get older, the. .

That endocannabinoid
system can become,

you know,
can malfunction.

It can become
dysfunctional.

It can be dysfunctional
in younger people, too.

And that's where
cannabis can come into play

because it has such
a plethora of cannabinoids,

fighter phytocannabinoids,

that mesh
beautifully

with the human
endocannabinoid system.

So my mission
is to change the stigma

regarding cannabis.

And for the world

to know about
the endocannabinoid system.

And I'm choosing
to do it through education.

[narrator] Cannabis
is a plant that belongs

to the family of flowering
trees called Cannabaceae.

Taking less than one year
to grow into full maturity.

The entire plant provides
food from the seeds.

Clothing from the fiber,
brick from the stalks.

The roots
remediate the Earth,

bringing back nutrients
to the soil.

The flowers provide
medicine and much more.

[Pete] So just how important
are the contents in cannabis?

[Ethan] Years ago, I thought,
what would it look like

if someone had
deficient endocannabinoids?

Unnatural chemicals
in the brain

that look like THC.

And it occurred
to me that

a number of disorders
would fit this description.

Being migraine headaches,

irritable bowel syndrome
and fibromyalgia.

And these have
a lot in common.

We know. . a study was done
in Italy some years ago,

where they measured
anandamide

an endogenous cannabinoid
that is similar to THC.

They measured that
in the cerebrospinal fluid

that surrounds
the spinal cord in the brain

and found that
there was an extreme lowering

of those
endocannabinoid levels

as compared to people
who didn't have migraine.

So this was a demonstration
of what we call

Clinical
Endocannabinoid Deficiency.

We know this can
gradually improve

with aerobic activity,
with a good diet.

But also with cannabis.

And one of the things that

the Clinical Endocannabinoid
Deficiency disorders

have in common
is that

they seem to be
well treated with cannabis.

Whereas
most other drugs,

including
the approved ones,

work very poorly
in these conditions.

[Pete] And how
would you define medicine?

Medicine is very, very
difficult I think to define.

A drug has many different
definitions.

A drug is something that
you use to treat disease with.

A drug may be something that
affects your. . your physiology.

And a medicine
is something

that is meant
to make you feel better.

[Pete]
Since most medicines today

don't appear
in plant form,

I wonder how
cannabis will hold up

against
designer pharmaceuticals.

[Morgan] I just started
getting a lot of pain

out of nowhere in my. .
in my stomach when I ate.

I was screaming in pain
and my mom just thought,

"I'm just going to take her
to the children's hospital,"

which she did.

And it was there
that I was finally diagnosed

with Crohn's disease.

But I think
there is a lot of

misinformation
about this plant.

And there's so many people
out there that still don't know

and still have
that prejudice against it.

So I just want to
tell my story

because it's pretty. .
pretty miraculous.

Crohn's
is an autoimmune disease.

It affects
your entire body.

They had me on. .

medication.

And they put me
on steroids.

Which is a lot of the time,

the number one thing
that they put people on

to get the flare
under control.

But it didn't work for me

and I had a hemorrhage
in hospital.

And they took me in
for emergency surgery

and removed 20 centimeters
of my small intestine.

[Michael] Ben was out
on a training ride

after having done the Sydney
to Wollongong cycle race.

Triathlon fit
at that point in time,

ready to take on the world

and then felt
a very sharp stabbing pain

on the right hand side
of his spine.

I thought I'd just pulled
a muscle to be honest.

I tried
to stretch it out,

but it ended up locking,

as if there was a knife
shoved in my ribs.

I then had to ride another
600 meters, give or take,

before I could actually
get into my street.

And when
I got off the bike, I was. .

I was just
walking like this.

The neighbor had seen me,
came running over.

He said, "Are you okay?"
I'm like, "no,"

I grabbed my bike
and ended up collapsing.

The disease is called
stiff-person syndrome.

It affects one
in a million people.

It's actually
been over that,

it's closer to one
in 1. 2 million people.

When I have a spasm,

they're quite similar
to epilepsy.

But the difference is
I'm fully conscious,

can hear everything,
feel everything.

I'd seen a lot of
medical conditions.

I'd worked
in significant. .

neurological conditions.

Think Parkinson's, MS,
motor neuron disease,

paraplegia, quadriplegia.

I'd never seen anything
remotely like this

and what I did see
terrified me.

Both my parents
are nurses.

They honestly expected
to bury me.

[Michael]
What it appears as though,

he's being electrocuted
when it's at its worst.

[Ben] We've recorded
my BP, 208/190.

Temperature
of 41. 5 degrees.

And a pulse
of 190 beats per minute.

[Michael] I've recorded
Ben's vital statistics,

his blood pressure,
temperature and pulse

at levels
that would kill most people.

[Pete] The more I looked,
the more I found youngsters

with terrible afflictions
using pharmaceuticals.

Yet not finding the relief
they were after.

Someone
with a serious illness,

like a brain tumor
and intractable epilepsy,

it turns a family's life
on its head.

Like, it. .
You don't sleep the same way.

You don't live the same way,
you can't do things normally.

Everything in your day
has to be. .

worked around.

Is someone going to be
with him at all times?

[Lindsay]
I was constantly sick,

constantly nauseous,
constantly having headaches.

One day I was actually
asking my dad to help me out. .

with some resumes
when I was young

and I went. .

As I was walking into the room,
to ask him, I fell.

Face first into the ground,
having a tonic seizure.

[Pete]
So that was the first time?

Yeah, that was my first time
having anything.

A few days later,
I had to get an MRI

and I found out I had
a tumor in my brain.

They're given various names:
GBM, glioblastoma multiforme,

grade four,
high grade,

glioma,
malignant glioma.

They're all the same thing.
It's brain cancer.

It is the worst
of all the cancers.

And no one
will dispute that.

It carries almost
100% mortality rate.

And only 5%
of patients live

more than five years,
which is terrible.

Many other cancers have
many other different BSTs,

best standard treatments.

So breast cancer,
for example,

the first line treatment,
if it doesn't work,

there's second line,
there's third line,

there's fourth line, there's
twentieth line treatments

for some cancers where
the first line treatment fails.

Brain cancer?

first line treatment is BST

and no other treatments
thereafter.

[Pete] Lindsay's tumor
was causing severe seizures,

leading to even more
medications.

[Lana] I remember when he was
on very high levels of,

you know,
some of the drugs

that they give him
for the epilepsy.

I mean,
he did get toxic at one point

on one of those drugs.

And it was horrible,
wasn't it?

He had terrible headaches
and he just. .

-I had like. .
-Caused liver damage.

Burning all through
my insides.

He'd wake up, yeah.

Like there were some foods

they wouldn't let me eat
because of it.

We're conducting
a clinical trial

using medicinal marijuana
or medicinal cannabis

on glioblastoma.

And because
this is such a big disease

and with such
a poor prognosis.

Like most of people when
they get diagnosed with a GBM,

have anywhere
between six months

to eighteen months
to live.

So. . and at the moment,

we haven't had
anything substantially

to extend that
for them.

So there's
limited treatment.

[Ethan] Seizures,
if you will,

are an electrical
abnormality in the brain.

If it spreads
to the whole brain,

it produces
what's called a convulsion.

Epilepsy is a condition
of repetitive seizures.

It has been known
for probably 4000 years

that cannabis
treats epilepsy.

We've got strong evidence
from ancient Assyrians.

The Acadians and Sumerians

saw this
reference to cannabis

treating a condition,
called Hand of Ghost.

And the experts
in these things

tell us
that Hand of Ghost. .

meant a seizure
that happened at night.

And this has been
borne out subsequently

in the Middle East
from 1200 years ago.

We have attestations

of cannabis
treating convulsions.

[Pete]
It turns out glioblastoma

isn't the only cause
of intractable epilepsy.

[Kim] I am mother to Aaron,
who is now four and a half.

So when I turned 40,
I decided to have a child.

He came out perfect.

Great APGAR.
Like, nine.

And all the tests
were fantastic.

And we had a wonderful
first four months.

And then
on the 27th of January 2015. .

he suddenly had a seizure
that lasted 55 minutes.

I had never seen
a seizure before.

And I was on my own

and I thought
I was going to lose him.

And he was just limp
and not moving.

And I was, like,
you know, shocked.

"What's wrong
with my son?

Why would he suddenly
have a seizure?"

He had. .
just had a needle that day.

They asked me if he was
epileptic

and I said,
"Not that I knew of. "

There was no epilepsy
in the family,

there's no history of it.

They observed him
for a couple of hours and. .

he was fine
but when I brought him home,

he suddenly had
another seizure.

And this happened
repeatedly

and his seizures
went from anywhere

from 45 minutes
to an hour and 45.

One time he actually
completely stopped breathing

and they had to
resuscitate him.

[babbling]

So they put him
on all these different

antiepileptic drugs and. .

nothing worked, actually
everything made him worse.

[babbling]

And that's what really
drugged him out, like,

it stopped the seizures,
but it stopped everything.

It stopped his learning,
stopped. . his functioning as a,

you know, child,
infant, growing.

[Michael] We started out
with basic painkillers for Ben

because the doctors didn't
understand what was going on.

"So you know what?
Let's bomb him out.

What the hell?

He just won't be
in pain anymore. "

Then, because
of everything that

I'd done previously
as a nurse, I said,

"well, we need to look
at some anti spasmodics

because his muscles
are in spasm,

in constant flux. "

They didn't stop moving.

And I've literally
had to massage his lower back.

And at one stage,
his buttock.

It locked so badly
in spasm that

when I managed
to get it to release. .

the muscle
almost came off the bone.

To watch that happen
is terrifying.

To feel it happen.

I can't even begin
to imagine

what Ben was feeling
at that time.

But anti-spasmodics,
painkillers

and no damn answers.

[Pete] Like most people,
I grew up believing that

illness is best treated

with clinically
tested medication.

But is there
really no avoiding

such mild
or severe side effects?

[Dustin] What we've found
in our efforts

to synthesize
single molecules

that are very similar
to things found in plants,

is they have a very
singular action in the body

most of the time.

And it's a strong action,
which often has

more toxic
potential side effects.

[Brigitte] If we go back
to the year 1900,

most pharmaceuticals
were made from plants.

But there's been this quest
to either remove. .

one ingredient,
one perceived ingredient

as the active ingredient
and turn it into a drug.

[David] And oftentimes
we see that

when we target
one specific pathway,

there are other things
that are not anticipated

that can happen
down the line

that would have
a negative effect.

[Pete] You're talking
about side effects.

Side effects, you know,
we try to operate

under the principle
of "Above all, do no harm. "

"Primum Non Nocere. "

And yet some of the most
common interventions used today

in terms of drugs
are in fact associated

with horrendous
side effects

that nobody wants
to talk about.

[Morgan] They had me
on steroids.

So I was on one
which was called Humira,

and I had to
inject myself with it.

And from that,
I got drug induced lupus

and then I couldn't walk
and I was in excruciating pain

and I was
pretty much crippled.

I pretty much didn't have
a quality of life

because I was just
so sick all the time

and bedbound
and malnourished.

So I was
very underweight

and it caused all my hair
to fall out in year 12,

which I was
so embarrassed about.

And I had no idea
and I went to my doctor.

And I said,
why is this happening?

And he looked in his. .

book of side effects
and was like,

"Oh, that is a side effect,
I didn't know that. "

There is seriously something
wrong in the medical system,

if the doctor
doesn't even know

about the side effects
of the drug

he's giving out
to his patients.

They had nothing else really
that they could do for me

and my surgeon was really. .
he felt really bad.

But he was like, "we're gonna
have to take your colon out. "

And I just was, you know,
I had a breakdown

and I just said,
I can't do that.

[Pete]
What are people to do

when sanctioned medicines

are sometimes
causing side effects

nearly as harmful
as the ailments

it's made
to alleviate?

[David] The problem
with being a doctor

is that we are experts
in disease,

we're not experts
in health.

I think
one of the things

that we've dug
a hole for ourselves

is looking only
at manufactured pharmaceuticals

as having a role
in healing.

[Dustin] I graduated
medical school

without ever having received
a definition of health.

And the best
definition I ever had

of healing in medical school
was the process

that happens
after a surgical incision.

But that's usually
not the kind of healing

people are talking about

when they come to the doctor
looking for healing.

There are a hundred thousand
deaths a year in this country

from overdoses,
from pharmaceuticals.

And oftentimes
getting off pharmaceuticals

can have
their own side effects.

What's wrong
with this picture?

I mean,
here you've got opioids

that are killing
150 people a day.

That are considered,
by classification. .

less dangerous
than cannabis.

Which has been shown
to not kill anyone.

We have patients. .

that are off their meds
that they were on

for 10 years,
20 years, 30 years.

So it's an exit plant,
exit drug.

[Pete] So how do you,
as a doctor, know

how to use
this medicine?

Because
there is CBD oil, THC,

all the different types
of cannabinoids and terpenes.

So how do you know,
how do you prescribe?

Well, first thing
is that we don't prescribe.

We get to
only recommend

because cannabis
is in schedule one,

along with heroin,
LSD and ecstasy.

So doctors
don't get to prescribe it.

And I tell them about
delivery systems.

We tell them about
how you can consume it.

And how it can
make you feel.

And how long
it can vary from.

[Ethan] When I saw a patient
with a given condition,

we discussed
all the possibilities

which were conventional
synthetic drugs

and natural products.

And I gave them
the option.

And many people opted
towards natural medicines,

including cannabis.

And to be quite honest,
we did as well

or better with those.

Often successfully
alleviating symptoms.

And often, most often
with many fewer side effects.

[Pete]
What does that tell you?

It tells me that
nature does it better.

[Ben] Thanks
to medicinal cannabis,

I've been able
to actually reduce opioids

and take some of those
out of my system.

Thanks to a plant.

All the options
that I was given. .

there was just. .
too many.

And medical cannabis
just seemed like a simple idea.

So we went out and we tried
it and it actually worked.

[Pete] When you say it worked,
what does that mean?

Like, it. . it worked,

it. . it shrinked. .

Well, basically
within seven weeks

of him starting the oil
in Washington state,

depending on which
hospital's report you look at.

One had said
3. 2 centimeters. .

and one had said
at 1. 5, 1. 6.

The next MRI
showed that

the tumor had
reduced down to 0. 8,

like, eight millimeters.

We saw what it was like
for him to be without it.

We saw how much
his seizures increased.

The next MRI
wasn't good.

It showed increased swelling
around the tumor.

He cannot stop this treatment.
He cannot stop.

[Kim] So when he started
the CBD oil. .

he went
from having. .

one hundred at least
atonic seizure drops,

like, dropping to the ground,

down to about 50
in an entire day.

So there was
an amazing reduction.

-[Pete] What did you think?
-This is working.

Something's. .
something's doing something.

[Pete] So how long has Aaron
been on the CBD oil for now?

[Kim] In August,
it will be three years.

And he's flourishing.

You know, when I first
tried him into childcare

for just up to
five hours in one day. .

he couldn't last
two hours.

Now he's going four days
for the five hours.

So he goes five hours
of the day, yeah.

[Pete] And you've got
your boy back.

[Kim]
I've got my boy back.

And we're an awesome team.

We're buddies,
we're mates.

Is that you,
is that baby Aaron?

[Dr. Teh] There's a lot of
chronic disease

creeping into
western society

that's happened
since 1940.

Call it a coincidence,
I don't know.

But since that time,
we haven't had. .

Phyto or
plant cannabinoid input

into our bodies
regularly as a food

or as a medicine
or as a recreation.

And as a result,
I believe a lot of. .

disease
could be attributed

to a lack of
endocannabinoid tone

or endocannabinoid
deficiency syndrome.

As Dr. Russo
from the States would put it.

[David] I remember
seeing a front page article

in High Times that listed
a number of medical conditions

that they thought
the cannabis was useful for.

And my thought
was the same

as some physicians
who questioned me.

"No one substance
can do all that. "

Well,
the fact of the matter is

that cannabis
isn't one substance.

It has
512 molecules in it,

113 are cannabinoids.

It has more than
200 terpenes.

Terpenes are what give
cannabis its unique odor.

And many of these terpenes
have therapeutic value

in their own right.

[Max] You see all those
little white, sparkly things?

[Pete] Uh-huh.

-What everyone says,
like THC crystals?

-Yeah.
-Those are the trichomes.

So what you do
is put this up to your eye.

And then bring
the cannabis in towards.

-[Pete] Oh, wow.
-[Max laughs]

[Max] You see
what's going on in there?

You see a million
little glowing mushrooms?

-[Pete] Uh-huh.
-[Max] These are glands.

Resinous glands,
made out of fatty lipids

that the plant grows,

that produces
the terpenes.

There's 20,000 types
of terpenes in the world

that we're aware of.

These are the chemistry
in the flowers.

And then the craziest thing
about these smells is,

they have
a pharmacology

that dictate
where we go with them.

So THC is the engine
in the car, right?

And if you've got a HEMI,
you've got a lot of THC,

so that's going to
push you forward fast.

But if you want to
turn the wheel downward

because you just
got off of work.

You need
sedative terpenes.

Versus if you want to go
to a show or do art. .

you want to have
stimulating terpene types.

Those are not cannabinoids,

it's not THC
that's directing

where this
experience is going.

It's the smells.

[Morgan's mom] Terpenes come
from the sun and they are. .

they are sex hormones
of the female plant,

basically, they are pheromones
of cannabis.

[Morgan] My mom found this
doctor, Dr. William Courtney.

And he actually healed
his wife of. .

I think she had
ten different conditions.

She was told
she'd never have children,

all this stuff.

And he got on
to juicing

and now they have
two children together.

And you know,
I just saw that

and I was like,
we have to give this a go.

By being up here now
for three weeks juicing

and I feel better
than I have in years.

And all of my symptoms
disappeared within three days.

So my bleeding stopped,
my pain stopped.

I was living on opiates,
which are extremely addictive.

Now, I don't need any of that
because of a plant medicine.

[Pete] How could
raw plant juice outperform

the top medications
Morgan had tried?

[Uma] Understand,
that this plant

has over
500 different chemicals.

We've identified
over a hundred

and I think
44 different cannabinoids.

The cannabis plant's
almost magic in a sense

that it can act
on any system.

And it's. .
it's intelligent.

It knows what you need
to be healed.

Even though you may saturate
your body with cannabinoids,

they'll only have effect
in the areas

that are required
for your healing.

[Morgan] Dr. William Courtney
says that. .

most people, when
they're on heated cannabis,

such as an oil
or something like that,

they start off
at maybe ten milligrams,

if they've never had
cannabis before.

And that's a. .
that's a pretty small dose.

When you have
raw cannabis,

such as juicing
or something like that,

they have
no psychoactive effect.

So you can have thousands
of milligrams of cannabinoids

in one hit.

What I personally find
remarkable is that

this is the medicine
that you're taking.

Yeah.

A living plant,
taking the leaves off it

and you are ingesting this. .

in probably the most
natural form there is.

Yeah, I think it's something
that's a bit hard for people

to wrap their heads
around that

a plant can be
so healing.

[Pete] Absolutely love
the color, it's so vibrant.

[Michael] Even after
multiple conversations

and many,
many different chats. .

we decided
that cannabis oil

was our only significant
option at that point.

Not something
that we wanted to do.

Ben was as anti-drugs
as you could possibly get.

My biggest fear was the fact
that it's an illegal drug.

It's the "Devil's Drug. "

You know, I hadn't. .
I hadn't done enough research,

to be honest,
but everything that. .

has been portrayed
out there. .

you know,
I didn't want to go near it.

[Michael] It was a blend of
cannabis oil and coconut oil.

Now, whole plant
cannabis oil.

I need to emphasize this,
no matter what happens.

Ben has always had THC

present
in his medication.

Five years
he's been taking cannabis oil

and yet he has never
once been stoned

as a result
of taking cannabis oil.

Never once.

It's just remarkable.

I mean, I've had effects
from endones

and diazepams. .
legally prescribed medication.

Yet something illegal,
like cannabis was,

I'd never had
any effects from it.

We discussed it at length
before we actually went ahead.

In the long run,
Ben, as an adult,

turned around and said,
"What have I got to lose?"

I just got to the point where
I was in that much pain. .

that I needed
to try something.

And as soon as I did,
well, I haven't looked back.

You know,
prior to medicinal cannabis,

I had the best part

of 600 or more
spasms, right?

And since I've been using
medicinal cannabis,

I've only had three.

Three spasms.

And my average
pain level

is between
a six and a seven.

And the lowest
I've had my pain down to,

was probably about a five,
I reported a pain of three.

[Dr. Teh] In response to stress
of any kind in our body,

emotional stress,
physical stress. .

actual trauma, arthritis,

anything that
causes pain or inflammation

or any kind of stress.

Our endocannabinoid system

gets stimulated
to start and bring

that stress response,
whatever it be,

back into balance,
back into homeostasis.

[Marcus] Cannabinoids
are the very substances

that are the compounds

that are regulating
our biological functions.

From our memory
to our appetite,

to how well we sleep

and we can produce
these compounds on our own.

Cannabis is a unique plant
in the sense

that it produces
phytocannabinoids,

meaning
they're from plants.

But we ourselves produce
endogenously, which means

inside of our own bodies,
we produce cannabinoids.

This helps
people realize,

"wow, even if I don't use
the plant cannabis,

I'm still using
compounds like that

to maintain my health
and to heal. "

And so that makes it
very inviting, very acceptable.

If you look
at a sea squirt,

which is a very
primitive organism,

it has a cannabinoid receptor
that's almost identical

to what we have in our brains
and in our bodies.

And that points out
to somewhere around

600 million years ago,
we had a common ancestor

that developed
this cannabinoid system.

[Chris] This is my little
shrine to Shiva in cannabis.

Shiva's, you know,
goes back to the Stone Age,

really ancient God,

but he's particularly
associated with cannabis.

And in this statue,

he's preparing cannabis here,
grinding it.

These are balls,
bong balls.

They're little,
like, round up cannabis,

rolled into balls that
he used for preparing bong.

He's got material here
for straining and he's drinking

and then he's smoking
a chillum here.

Islamic stuff,
I've always been a real digger

of the whole
Islamic scene

with cannabis Dervishes,
and Sufis.

They were using cannabis
for centuries.

You know, going back
to the early medieval period,

wrote about it,
wonderful poems, you know.

One Sufi saying is
"God has granted you

the privilege of knowing
the secret of these leaves.

Thus, when you eat it,
your miseries will disappear

and your exalted mind
will become polished. "

Same with these pictures.

We got Ganesh
grinding the bong,

which is the Indian name
for the cannabis beverage.

And she was drinking it,
you know,

these serpents
giving it a tester

before he partakes
of it, you know.

And here he is again with
his wife preparing cannabis.

This is a group
of Indian Sadhus

preparing a fire ritual,
smoking chillum

It was from the 1920s.

And this is like
a marble statue

of a Sadhu
smoking a chillum.

We got another
Sadhu here.

He has a trophy in his arm
by holding it up continuously

as an act of will
as part of his yoga practices.

[calming music]

[Dee]
A lot of historians agree

that ancient yoga began
with cannabis use.

And then
I also tell my students,

even if that history
wasn't there,

if it works for you,
that's all you need, right,

your own
subjective experience.

So it's cannabis-enhanced yoga.

And it's specifically
a really slow form of yoga

that's for all levels.

And if I have my way,
organic cannabis.

We have the color

-of CBD isolate here.
-[woman] Oh, nice.

We also have some
solventless. .

rosin here as well,
if you'd like to indulge too.

But as I always say,
a little dab will do you.

[Dee] I was actually
the type of person

that cannabis
didn't work well for.

It made me quite agitated
and paranoid.

And so I tried it again
it my late twenties

and it was just
at the right dose

and immediately I wanted to
get on my mat and do yoga

because it immediately got me,
like, feeling my body.

-Oh, that's nice,
-It's nice, yeah, that's good.

[calming flute music]

[Dee] A big part, I think,
for people to feel their body

is to actually
enjoy the feeling.

So if there's
a lot of pain,

it's hard
to get motivated

to get on the floor
to do yoga.

[flute music]

And the more
I experience it

and help others into,
you know,

that altered state
that yoga brings,

the more I realize
this is a sacrament.

You kind of lose yourself in,
you know, in the yoga.

Right, it doesn't matter
if you can touch your toes.

All of the things
that we might bring

to a conventional
yoga class.

[woman] It might take me
in a regular class

where it's really
to really unwind and let go.

But the cannabis
helps me just drop

into that deep space
inside of me.

[Dee] It's really cool that
it's both a spiritual substance

and a recreational substance.

And then somewhere
in the middle,

it's also
a medical substance.

So cannabis wears
a lot of hats.

[flute music]

[Pete] Why do
cannabinoids and exercise

pair so nicely together?

[Donald] Lately, there's more
and more evidence of things

that I've thought for 22 years
that the runner's high,

which we attributed
to endorphins,

is really
from endocannabinoids.

And. . you know,
it's to make us feel good.

[Dustin] And when
I was in medical school,

I went
to an osteopathic conference

and a doctor named
John McPartland.

He was presenting
a session basically about

how giving someone
an osteopathic treatment

would about double their
levels of endocannabinoids.

And so I was like, oh,
now I understand at least

part of why it feels so good
to get up off the table

after a body work treatment.

And now we know that exercise
and singing and you know,

all sorts of other things
that are healthy

and make us feel good
are working,

at least in part by augmenting
this endocannabinoid system.

[Chris] My art,
the purpose of my art

is to heal myself,
to express myself.

And you bring something
that's never been seen before.

So in that way, you kind of,
like, accessing your God self,

it's like, I can make something
that's never been seen before.

And how beautiful is that?

But if on top of that,
I can talk to my viewers

and bring some kind of
reflection that helps them

a little bit closer to their
path towards God consciousness

or their higher self,
then that's an extra blessing.

And a great service
that I can do

as a human
in this time.

[Pete] Can you talk to me
about the cannabis plant itself

and your perception of it?

I started smoking
at 18 years old,

which I appreciate because
I feel like, I had, like,

a big chunk of my life
not smoking.

Developing
my own personality.

And then at 18, 19,
I started smoking weed.

It kind of, like, gives you
a different point of view.

So it kind of makes you,
like, think things differently.

And it's a healthy thing

to see things
from different perspectives.

My problem is
I've got a little bit

of an addictive personality.

So like,
if I like something,

I want more of it
and more and more and more.

And then you just. .

I fall into,
like, a cycle where. .

I go up and then
as soon as I'm going down,

a little bit under
the normal consciousness,

I want to go back up.
You know?

I don't want to
go down at all.

[Pete] So far, this plant
seems incredibly useful

for healing
and feeling good.

But what about
all those risks

many of us have heard so much
about when we were kids.

[police siren]

[female reporter]
Armed with a search warrant,

federal drug agents
break the lock off this fence

and swarm this home
in South Dade.

Drug enforcement officers
are looking for illegal drugs.

[male reporter]
According to a new survey,

if you're a kid
looking for drugs,

you don't have to go any
further than your school.

Schools are candy stores
of dangerous substances.

Alcohol, cigarettes,

drugs, like heroin,
cocaine, acid and marijuana.

[David] We live in a culture
in our country. .

we're derived
from Puritans

and we have
a Judeo-Christian culture

and we are fearful
of euphoria.

And we live
in this culture that thinks

being high
is bad or wrong.

Because some people
are just. .

They come in and go,
"Dr. Uma,

I don't want to smoke it
and I don't want to be high. "

Okay, I appreciate you
for saying that.

[Dr. Ivker] I've seen over

almost 8300 patients

and almost
all of them

have been using
medical marijuana

to relieve their pain.

One of the first things
they tell me

when they come in,

"I don't want to
get high. "

And they're pretty
adamant about it.

[Pete] The big question is,
is there any reason

to be cautious
around cannabis use?

There's real risks
from cannabis.

It happens to be
a really non-toxic drug

you can't overdose on.

But you can absolutely have
a mental addiction to this.

There are small amounts of
physical addiction to cannabis.

To deny this
is to put other people at risk.

I feel that
the cannabis entity is like

a female loving in a way,

it gives you a nice buzz
in the belly.

But it's very sticky,
you know,

like the buds
sticky to your fingers

and then you smoke it
and your mind sticks to things,

like, oh, look at that thing
and just look at it forever.

And then it kind of
sticks to me in my life.

You know, if I smoke
more than two or three days,

it just wants to be with me
all the time.

It's like, okay, like,
we're. . we're homies now.

So it just
sticks to me

and it's really hard
for me to remove it.

I don't think
I'm at my potential

when I'm stoned
all day long.

So I had to consciously
stop smoking weed.

Even though
I'm an artist,

was part
of the psychedelic community,

where everyone
is smoking weed around me,

where all my clients
either, like,

are part
of that industry.

And my fanbase
all smoke weed

and I feel like
I'm letting them down.

But I just got to be
honest to myself and be like,

"you know what, this
is not so good for me anymore. "

So I'd rather just
not smoke at all these days

so I can not have
to depend on anything.

[Dustin] One of the biggest
risks of using cannabis

as a medicine is that
it works so well.

And that means
that it could cover up symptoms

that one's body is trying
to use as a communication

to say, "we need to change
the way we're living. "

Right.

And so, you know,
for example,

maybe someone
has chronic nausea,

waking up vomiting
in the morning.

They find that by having
a couple of puffs of cannabis,

suddenly that symptom
goes away.

Do they have an ulcer,
do they have stomach cancer?

Do they have something wrong
with their diet

that their stomach
is resisting, right?

And if. . and if they were
to use cannabis

for that purpose
for a long period of time,

would that underlying
condition get worse?

Probably, yes,
not always.

Cannabis may correct. .
help correct the physiology

and change the relationship
with whatever it was

in their life
that was causing the problem.

But often
it can be used as a crutch.

It's especially younger males,
for some reason,

tend to become so wedded
to their use of the plant

that they become cut off
from life to a large degree.

It's like you have
a little man-cave,

you know,
kind of metaphorically speaking

and you're hiding out in it

and it's this cozy place,
you know?

Me and my cannabis.

And they prioritize it
over relationships

to the rest of life.

So that's sort of
the issue with cannabis.

It's very seductive
that way, although. .

that's almost not fair.

She's not doing that.

it's we're allowing ourselves

to be seduced
by her pleasures as it were.

[Jeffrey] I'm treating
families with. .

elderly people or children
with mental disorders

or mood disorders
or autism.

And I use THC cannabis

as a tool
to change people's minds.

If they're not used to it,

when you add
a little THC,

you get to think
differently.

And that's. . that's a real
important tool in medicine

is to have people
change their mind

and think differently
about things.

At this point of time,
I am not smoking weed.

Once in a while,
I'll partake

and then I actually get
really paranoid and I'm like,

"okay, weed is way too strong
for me these days"

and it's just not enjoyable.

So it's almost like,
I feel like

my body has
a self-defense mechanism.

Where it's like, if I don't
scare you at the first shot,

you're going to get
back into this

and you're going to go, like,
deep into the. . the cloud.

Once again,
I'm not at my potential

and I don't enjoy that.

I want to be,
like, the best me

and the best of me
is like me right now,

thinking clearly
and saying what I want to say

without any mud
in between.

Now, I often think of cannabis
as a teacher because

for the people that are using
it as a crutch for too long,

it often will suddenly
change the way it affects them.

And they'll say,
"for years I've used cannabis

and it's always had
this benefit on me.

Now, every time I use it,
I get this side effect. "

It's usually
anxiety or paranoia,

but sometimes it actually
starts making the pain worse

or starts making
the nausea worse.

And this is typically a sign
that they've been relying

a little too much
on this medicine.

That seems like a panacea,
right?

That's. .
that's how it feels.

It helps with so many
different conditions.

-[Pete] Are you skeptical?
-Yes.

-Healthy skepti. . skepticism?
-Yes.

What are you skeptical about?

For me, primarily
is whether or not this would. .

A, work on keeping the cancer
and the tumor small,

which is what the oral chemo
has been able to do so far.

And the other thing
is just the side effects,

the THC in particular,
the different. .

edibles that we've tried
before the THC.

I didn't like
the effect of those

and then concerned about

whether that would allow me
to continue to work

if I went that route.

[David] So basically,
how do we go about it?

We start low
and we titrate up.

So when you're talking about
you don't want to be high,

I'll make you a promise that
you'll never feel too high.

And then you decide on
how much you want to push that.

I often say
to my patients

the regards
of a psychoactive effect.

So 99% of patients
are cannabis naïve

or never seen,
touched cannabis before.

So it's important
to explain to them

everything
that's going to happen.

It's not like
you're going to see

pink elephants
floating around.

It's more like,
you might say,

the trees
are a little bit greener,

or the sky's
a little bit bluer.

Or you just smell
that nice flower on the air,

you'll notice things that
you don't normally notice.

And anecdotally,
from people, from patients,

they enjoy
being outside more and. .

and being
in nature more.

I'm going to
tell you things.

I'm gonna tell you "Don't trust
me, look it up for yourself. "

And I've done
the research for you.

And when
they say just THC. .

I'm saying,
"no, you need CBD also. "

They work in synergy
with each other.

I've seen it
firsthand.

I've seen
people that. .

you know, can't walk,

and once they start
using this,

you can see
the pain go away.

[Pete]
What is a dispensary?

[Jeffrey] Dispensary
is where we dispense

cannabis
and cannabis products.

So there's dozens
of different ways

to ingest it
into your system.

So we have
a medical side,

where you have to get
a medical recommendation

from a doctor
in order to go in.

And then
a recreational side

where it's basically
21 and over.

Flower-wise,
there's not much difference.

The flowers are all pretty much
the same on both sides.

On the medical side,
though,

if you're taking it
for medicinal reasons

and you need
higher doses,

that's where
the medical side comes in.

[Uma] I'm so against
this medical and recreational,

I do not like
those words at all.

We never say
your heart is working medically

or your heart
is working recreationally.

But somehow,
when it comes to cannabis

that works with the
endocannabinoid system,

we're going to segregate.

It's an incredibly
hard plant to regulate.

You know, it's not like
most "intoxicants,"

where it's just being
used recreation.

And there's
not a clear line between

where does medicine stop
and. . and intoxicant begin.

We're facing
an opioid epidemic.

And this,
to me, is a solution.

And cannabis was used

in this country,
in the United States. .

for opioid addiction,
it was used for alcoholism.

It protects
your brain cells.

It's safe.

And yet,
it's illegal.

[news anchor]
Armed narcotics officers

stayed here all night.

The search is on
for the suspects.

[Dr. Ivker] It's been
a Schedule 1 drug since 1971,

when Richard Nixon. .

had a commission
to study cannabis.

And determine where
it should be classified.

And they concluded,

it should not be
a Schedule 1 drug,

which is what was proposed.

And in fact,
they questioned

whether it should be
illegal at all.

And he ignored
his own commission. .

and classified it
as a Schedule 1 drug.

[news anchor]
Deputies had to be flown

to the remote ridge line
where the pot farm is growing.

[Pete] There is
so much controversy

for this one plant that
has served humanity for ages

It is actually
a deeply unusual plant.

It was originally
domesticated in Central Asia

and humans brought it
to every corner of the globe.

And in each
of those regions,

it has become specialized
for a different purpose.

[Max] People in early
human history talk about

the importance
of the Stone Tool Revolution

and all the things
you could make from that.

But equally as important
would be the Fiber Revolution.

Hemp fiber made up
most of clothing for humans

throughout most of history.

[narrator]
Long ago, when these

ancient Grecian temples
were new,

hemp was already
old in the service of mankind.

[Max]
And it especially powered

the earliest navies
of the world.

[narrator] This plant had been
grown for cordage

and coarse cloth in China
and elsewhere in the East.

[Dr. Holmes] It's sort of the
dawn of the Seafaring Era.

Maybe 13-1400 A. D.

Sailors would never depart

on a cross-country voyage
without hemp seeds on board.

Because if they were stranded
on a desert island,

they could regrow
their own sails. .

and sail away again.

[Max] The invention
of rope meant

that you could
domesticate the horse.

And it meant
that you could trap and hunt

in a completely
different way.

It meant that
you could take foods with you.

And it meant, you could also
much easily construct houses

of a. .
of a better caliber.

[Pete] Not only has hemp
allowed humans

to voyage to new lands

and connect
with other cultures,

but it might
still offer solutions

to very modern problems,

according to leading
technology developers.

My name
is Richard Evans,

I'm the CEO and founder
of Mirreco.

We have a focus on technology,
research and development.

I was introduced to hemp
about 12 years ago

by a gentleman
in England.

He said to me,
hemp will change the world.

[Pete]
In what way?

The sheer versatility
of the plant

to create, you know,
in some people's minds,

thousands of products.

You know,
Mother Nature's gifted us

with a renewable resource.

We've just successfully grown
a hemp crop in 79 days.

So by comparison, typical trees
in the southern hemisphere

take in excess
of 20 years

to do exactly
the same thing.

In 1937,
Henry Ford built a hemp car.

He processed hemp fiber
into a composite.

What's most exciting
is that he managed

to extract the oil
to create a hemp-based biofuel

that was essentially
a replacement

for petroleum-based products.

So we could be
thinking about cars,

furniture, housing,
clothing, fuel.

Plastics is something
that's another challenge.

You know,
that the world faces today,

so hemp plastic,
of course.

[Pete]
Though some modern problems

aren't as evident
or physical in nature.

[fire crackling]

[Daniel] So this is a tepee
that we use

for Native American
church ceremonies,

the peyote ceremonies.

And I also do ceremonial work
with Cannabis sativa.

About five years ago,

when cannabis became legal
recreationally here,

we started to experiment
with using Cannabis sativa

as a psychedelic,
as a plant medicine.

So if you and I were just
sitting here smoking the blend

that I make
for psychedelic experiences,

you would have. . you would be
in a really altered state,

but it might
not be considered psychedelic.

It might be more psycholytic
in nature, you know,

more therapeutic
and exploratory.

Self-awareness,
that sort of thing.

But when we put you
in the right certain setting,

laying down flat, eye covering,
the right music playing,

the guided meditation,

you can have full blown
inner visual experiences.

Full somatic experiences,

being able to see
inside of your body

and see tension points.

[Pete] Why is it that
you do what you do?

So a lot of the people
I work with

have been injured in some way
in their childhood.

And that trauma can play out
through violence, right?

And also not just
through negative things,

but lack of potential.

Somebody doesn't live
into their potential

because they've been injured
in their childhood.

And so how do we
create a container

that can support that healing
and that unwinding

of the trauma
that they experienced?

The war on drugs
is a trauma machine, you know?

But this is my form of activism
in the world, right?

Is to. . is to teach people
not to rely even on me, right?

Not to rely
on other therapists,

but to teach people
the skill sets

to heal
their own trauma.

So the. .
the trend is breaking. .

but we still have
a long ways to go.

You know, people are still
in jail for this medicine.

Something that
I do legally. .

very often,
you know, with clients

on a weekly basis,
multiple times a week.

People are in jail
for doing this.

Working with this medicine
or seeking healing. .

[man] People who sell drugs
ought to be in jail

for a long period of time.

I believe that what we have
to do is not only interdict

and educate against,
but also to punish.

We don't punish enough.

[Pete] The punishment
in some countries

for making
cannabis oil

and giving it
to the sick for free

can be decades
in federal prisons.

Like with Jenny Helen.

My ex-husband
had said to me,

"You've got to be
careful, Jen.

it's getting too big, too many
people know about you. "

I said, "Don't worry,
they won't go after me.

Why would they go after me?
I'm not selling it. "

I never hurt anybody.
Never made one person sick.

I was sitting
in my lounge room. .

and four male police officers
rock up to my house.

I had racks of cannabis
lying out, drying in rooms.

I couldn't hide it,
I couldn't stash it.

I couldn't run around
and just put it

into a cupboard
or something.

It was all there
for everyone to see.

So I took a deep breath. .
deep breath

and I met them at the door
and. . and he had a warrant.

And I said to him,

"So you're going
to find cannabis

and you're going to
find cannabis oil. "

I said, "It's for people
who are sick and dying. "

I said "Anything
that you take from here today

could result
in somebody's death. "

And I let them
in my house.

And they took about 60 grams
of full-extract cannabis oil,

which was three different
people's cancer treatments,

including someone who
was one of my closest friends

with breast cancer.

She passed away
within a month.

They also took
about two liters

of the coconut oil. .

which was used
for kids with epilepsy.

Kids died.

A month ago, I had a judge
that wanted to put me in jail.

And basically said it was
equivalent of manufacturing ice

and that I deserved
to go to jail and I deserve

the full force of the law.

So it all depends on the judge
that you get on the day,

which is scary.

Jenny Hallam
had actually seen a story

of a documentary
that we had put together.

I didn't know Jenny
from a bar of soap.

She saw my son's story
on his Facebook page,

Roll On Ben Oakley.

And as soon
as she'd seen that,

she immediately
reached out to help us, uh

offered a supply
of medicinal cannabis oil.

A blend of THC,
CBD and coconut oil.

And she said, look,
I honestly believe

that this is going to help.

It's so good
to see you.

[Fiona] I just
cannot understand

how we
as a compassionate country

could send
someone to jail

for being
so compassionate

that they are manufacturing
a medicine

and giving it away
to people

to save their lives.

How on earth can that
be against the law?

It's a plant,
for goodness sake,

that we are trying
to criminalize.

[Lanai] Nobody should go
to jail for that.

[Pete]
And if she does. .

It's just terrible. .

-[Pete] Lindsay?
-It's just ridiculous.

[Pete] Have you met Jenny?

[Lindsay] Yeah,
I have met Jenny.

[Pete] Does she seem
like a criminal?

No, she's not a criminal.

She's. .
she's a wonderful lady.

[Michael] In any other
field of human endeavor,

if you save someone's life
at risk to yourself,

you're a hero.

Jenny Hallam
will always be my hero.

She gave me
back my son.

You're talking
about a plant

that can be grown
just about anywhere,

that can be very,
very easily accessed.

What would you do?

What would you do
if it was your child?

Would you break the law?

[Morgan] Yes,
we were growing illegally

because it is not legal.

It wasn't legal at the time
to grow in Australia.

And yes, so my parents
were taking a huge risk.

I felt really guilty
about it and it caused

a lot of stress on me because
I was constantly worried,

are the police
going to come?

What's going to happen?

We got a knock at the door
and my mom opened it

and it was the local police
from my town.

And so they raided the place.

At the time,
I was really sick again. .

and you know,

I've never felt fear like that
in my entire life.

I just. .
I can't even explain

what it felt like
to feel like. .

you know,
being so sick

and having something
that actually worked for me

and then making

me and my family
feel like criminals for it.

[Lanai]
There's the added stress

put on a family
that's already dealing

with illness that they've. .

they've got to wear
this extra burden

of having to break a law

to keep their family member
or loved one alive.

It's just unfair.

[Dustin]
Are we protecting people?

Are we improving public health
by keeping cannabis illegal?

In my opinion
and in basically

every academic inquiry
that's ever looked into this,

the answer is no.

Prohibition does not improve
public health,

it does not reduce
the frequency

of cannabis use
in the youth.

It doesn't
protect people.

Prohibition just fills up
the jails and clogs up

the judicial system.

So prohibiting it
doesn't work, right?

Education works.

[Pete] Prohibition started
lifting primarily

when California passed
Proposition 215.

Allowing Californians
access to medicinal

or medical cannabis.

It was said to be the greatest
marijuana achievement

in political history.

Fourteen years later,
the next milestone hit

the Rocky Mountain State
of Colorado.

The first place
to legalize

the recreational use
of this controversial plant.

Ron Seigneur was among
the first business valuators

to focus on the emerging hemp
and cannabis sector.

[Ron] It was passed here
by referendum, by the people,

by a wide margin,
by a 63% approval margin.

People said, "We believe
that cannabis should be legal. "

[Pete] Tell me about
the different types

of businesses that you're
seeing emerging now

in the cannabis
and hemp space.

[Ron] Well, first, it's going
through these evolutions

where the small players
are getting absorbed

by the larger players.

Location and efficiency is
becoming much more important.

A lot of the people
that are in the business

are deciding whether they want
to be in the retail side,

in the dispensing side,
the grow side, cultivation

or the processing side,
making edibles.

And you know,
the processing and extraction

part of the business.

[Pete] After countless
generations of ancestral use,

here we are at the dawn

of its modern
commercial future

after being away
for decades.

But the big question is where
will industry take this plant?

[Dr. Holmes]
Plants are always evolving

and changing naturally.

Over millions of years,
they've changed,

just as every
living organism does.

Once humans get
their hands on a plant,

it starts to change
very rapidly.

They. . they direct
the evolution of the planet.

They start to push it
in the direction

that they want it to go in.

And so it becomes
a different kind of organism.

[Pete]
The Redwood Territory

of Northern California
is home to much

of the underground innovation
that happened

to cannabis
during prohibition.

Contributing to many
new genetic varieties.

[Craig] Originally,
people came up here

from San Francisco during
the back-to-the-land movement.

Haight-Ashbury,
late 60s, early 70s.

And settled
in these remote hills

where the logging industry
had already come through

and decimated the land.

And then cannabis
slowly came into it.

[Pete]
But Alpenglow family farms

is keeping the health of
the Earth and soil in mind.

[Craig]
This is a biology driven farm.

We're not putting nutrients

out of a jug
onto our soils.

We're trying
to bring in the intelligence

of the Earth
to feed our plants.

So we're a regenerative farm.

And what that means is

the constant sequestering
of carbon.

[Pete] Uh-huh.

[Craig]
And one of our goals here

is to build soils.

And in that
if you look at the forest,

the forest
is one of the most amazing

closed loop systems
you could ever acknowledge.

There's no soil trucks,
there's no fertilizer trucks

ever going into the forest.

And it just
maintains itself.

And that's not how
most farms operate these days?

No.

[Pete]
Traditional agriculture

of the past few centuries

has led to topsoil erosion

and also led to the infamous
Dust Bowl of the early 1900s.

All that happened when folks
were just monocropping

and not really caring
for the soil like you should.

So what has been
the result of monocropping?

-Oh my goodness.
-Complete loss of biodiversity.

[Pete] Biodiversity
refers to the ways

different species
of plants, fungi,

bacteria, insects
and animals interact

to keep
the land thriving.

Could regenerative farming
plant a seed

for the future
of commercial agriculture?

[Craig]
Three years ago, we were able

to come
out of the green closet.

You know,
this is our life work.

We've been
so proud of this.

My daughters have been
going to school

and not being
able to share. .

you know,
how we live.

[Melanie] Us growing cannabis
allowed us to live off the grid

and to be homesteaders.

It's amazing.

It's magical to be a part

of something so real

and something
so untouched by humans.

How to be a part of that

and then learning
these practices

on how not to become
part of the problem.

[Craig] The whole world
is looking at us right now

for our cannabis.

So we have a chance to sneak
in our farming practices,

showing regenerative farming
is the way to move forward.

[Pete] I traveled
the coast north to a facility

that buys cannabis
from Alpenglow Family Farms

and packages it
for consumer purchase.

[Barry] We're about to see
a production facility

that processes cannabis.

So this is
a legitimate business.

Yes, this is a fully licensed
cannabis business

in the state of California.

So over here

is where we process
all the pre-rolls.

[Pete]
So how does it get

from the farms
to this stage

where you're
actually rolling it?

Well, we bring them,
we bring

the flower
down from the farm.

Then we grade
the flower to decide

whether or not it's. .
it's of high enough quality

to actually be a part
of our True Humboldt brand.

If it has pesticides,
it cannot be remediated.

We have to destroy
the entire crop.

This is an interesting
question, then.

So the state
makes you destroy it generally,

if it has got pesticides on it
because of health concerns.

-[Barry] Correct.
-I find this really fascinating

coming from
a chef's point of view.

My journey is all about
understanding health.

It seems to me that cannabis
is actually leading the way in,

as it goes
to actually having

stringent laws in place.

So that. .

the plant itself can't
have these harmful pesticides

that we know are causing

so many problems
to our health.

Yet. . in the supermarkets,

for instance,
or the way that food is grown,

which I believe
is another form of medicine,

those rules
aren't as stringent.

And I wonder
if cannabis is actually

going to lead
the way here.

We're hoping
that it will.

We should be setting

standards as high
as the cannabis standards.

What type of cannabis
do you use?

Organic, that. .

that's part
of my vote and protest.

If I go to a dispensary

to pick up cannabis,

that's my absolute
first question.

What do you have
that's organic?

And if they say nothing,

which they rarely do,
there's always something.

You know,
I would just walk out.

And they would lose
my business.

And that would be
my protest.

Before, like 1930,

we didn't even use
the word organic.

Everything was organic.

But after World War I

and then certainly
after World War II,

more chemicals were introduced.

And we are all products

of generations

and decades
of being brainwashed

into thinking that we need

glyphosate to kill

our garden weeds.

[Pete] Tell us about
quality of the actual plant.

How important is that?

Well, at this point,
I don't use any medicine

that's not organic.

And I try to find
medicine that's grown

with intention and care.

Right now, we're at the top
of the hill of Abundance.

That's what we call it.

And it's been so abundant

over the last
10 years for us

in teaching us who we are.

We grow cannabis here.

We grow cannabis
like no one else

can grow cannabis.

-It's organic?
-Absolutely organic.

It's full of the energy
of the Earth.

As you can see in front of us,
this is Mabini.

It's a female mountain.

The aboriginals have
a lot of energy here.

So as you can imagine,

plants when they're
not organic,

they get fed chemicals

all day every day,
so they can grow real fast.

And artificial light,

they hold all that
stuff in them

and then they put
growth hormones

on to make bigger yields

and sell that
to smokers and stuff.

And, uh, that builds up

over time.

More and more people
are going to have to change

towards organics.

So we want
to sort of set

the benchmark of organics,
how you do it,

how you think about it,

why this. .
The plant is actually here.

What other goodness
can be derived from it?

Fresh is best.

All those concepts

that we lose
for convenience.

[Pete] While I definitely
lean towards organic,

sun grown vegetables.

Are there any benefits
to growing cannabis indoors

with a controlled environment?

-I love the smell in here.
-It's quite wonderful.

And what's amazing,

is these plants
you look at right now,

there is a patient out there

that will be receiving
this plant as a medicine.

In this farm,
we have mother plants,

those are plants that,
if you like,

maintain the self-sufficiency.

We don't need
to import product.

We take cuttings
from these mother plants.

Ten days they sit
in an incubator

which nurtures
them and they move

to the next phase,
which is called hardening.

In other words,
you are now building

the robustness
of the plants.

You are getting
it ready for flowering.

Flowers is where the oil
and the medicine is.

Now for medical cannabis,

for regulated medicine

that must be
100% the same every time,

this plant has to come

from a stable mother plant

that is bred
for a medical condition.

With one of our plants,

particular to epilepsy.

You want to take
one cutting,

you'll get an
identical replication.

You take
3000 plant cuttings,

which you can see right now.

You get an identical footprint.

So when we move
to oil extraction,

when we then produce
the bottled medicine,

you are working
with an exacting. .

It's a fancy word. .
But pharmacovigilance,

this standard of quality.

[Pete] Oftentimes,
it's not just

the flowers
that consumers want.

Cannabis extracts
have become a booming business

but how exactly are
these businesses extracting

their product from the plant?

So tell me about
this facility here

and how much industrial hemp
you've got bagged up here.

[Rich] We have
about 20 thousand pounds here

of processing material.

So we're going
to take that material

and process what we see here

into a fine grade oil,

which will then be processed
into a nice distillate,

which will then potentially
be processed further

made into manufactured goods.

[Pete]
Now this is industrial hemp,

so that means
low or no THC.

[Rich] Almost none.
Very, very low.

Has this been bred
to have those qualities?

Lower THC, higher CBD?

-Absolutely.
-Okay.

[Pete] So there's cannabis
that has high THC,

which gives you
the psychoactive.

And then
there's the low THC,

high CBD,
which is the hemp,

which is what you're making
for the CBD oil?

Correct, this is what we grow
for CBD production, not THC.

A lot of people
don't want to have

an altered state of mind.

What we want to have
is an improved state of mind.

A CO2 machine
is a different type of machine

that they would use high
pressures of carbon dioxide

to strip the plant material
versus ethanol.

-Uh-huh.
-There are, you know,

other methods too,
you can use butane.

Some people use butane.

There's some methods
of using propane.

So the goal is,

in any of these
extraction methods,

is to access. .

Strip the plant material
of the cannabinoids

and other bio nutrients.

Okay, and that's what
this machine does here.

That's correct.
So then we take this bio bag.

Stuff it in here.

We're going to run
ethanol through here,

and it's going to be
at high pressures,

there's going to be
two tanks.

It's going to be at about
40 degrees below zero.

So at that lower temperature
is actually going to help us

not take off
some of the fats

and the sugars
that we would not want.

We would have to actually do
another process later.

And then after that,
we have the crude oil.

Crude oil.

[Pete] But this is. . this is
a very intense concentrate

of the hemp plant
or cannabis plant.

-Very intense.
-So all the medicine's in here.

-It is.
-Okay.

This isn't the final stage,
is it?

No, it is not.

We fill the mantle

with the crude

and we distill it off

similar to
as you would do alcohol.

[Pete] Uh-huh.

So after it comes
out of that machine,

this is what we have.

[Rich]
We've taken plant material

to crude,
crude to distillate.

Now we have distillate.

Distillate, which means?

This is the higher
concentrate of crude.

It's a much higher concentrate,
almost to an isolated state.

[Pete] So if I am
to ingest this. .

[Rich] You're going to feel
a lot better.

-But no THC.
-Very, very little.

-So CBD, so down the hatch.
-Down the hatch.

Well, it's got a really strong,
strong flavor, doesn't it?

[Rich] It does.

-So there's one extra step.
-There is, let's go

-into the isolute room.
-Okay.

In here
is where we make isolate.

So isolate means?

Isolated CBD itself.

Nothing else
in there but CBD.

We pour pentene in.

We get the temperature
up to 30 degrees Celsius.

[Pete]
So pentene is an alcohol?

-[Rich] It's a solvent.
-[Pete] Okay.

[Rich]
You can see it spinning.

It's heating it
to the perfect temperature

and mixing it so that it will
bond with the pentene.

We take those pentene jars
and we put them in freezers.

And the freezing
process causes

the pentene
to separate everything else

and crystals form on the side.

And the crystals
are the CBD. .

-Isolated CBD.
-Isolate.

Our vacuum ovens. .

are where we melt
that back down.

We're at 250 degrees.

The whole time we're pulling
this at 600 pounds vacuum

and that is taking
all the solvents out of it

so that all
that is left after cooking

and vacuuming
is just the isolate.

[Pete] So this is
a very important step

to make sure
that the end product is pure.

[Rich] Absolutely.

That is isolated CBD.

-So neutral flavor?
-Neutral flavor.

So what. . who uses this?

Where does this
go to from here?

[Rich] This is for
the clientele

that would want THC free.

If you want a THC. .
absolutely THC free product

you're going to use isolate.

-Hey, how are you?
-[man] Thank you.

What can I get started for you?

I might get one of those
CBD lattes, please.

[barista]
Eight or 12oz for you?

-[Pete] Uh, 8oz, thank you.
-[Barista] Cool.

[Pete]
I couldn't help but wonder

if this refining process

would send cannabis

down the same path
that wheat,

sugar and even
the coca plant went down

where their refined state

no longer resembles the look

and the quality
of what nature produced.

[Dr. Holmes]
The evolution of cannabis

is just speeding up.

It's accelerating.

For 10,000 years,

we took care of them
and you know,

we picked the seeds from the
plants that we liked

the best and then save those
seeds and replant them and. .

and then over the course
of this century,

we started understanding
how. . how genes

are carried
through generations.

We learned how to read
the DNA in plants,

and we could figure out what
genes control, what traits.

It's become very powerful.

And the rate of change
in. . in all of the major crops

that we work with
started to accelerate.

Barley, and corn, and soy,

and rice are all coming out
much more frequently,

and we're figuring out how
to bend them to our will.

Cannabis went through
a different process.

All of that modern breeding
that's happened

in this century has never
happened to cannabis.

So our job
is to apply the tools

that let you do
rapid plant breeding

to all of those traits to make
the plant really work

for farmers,
to make it stronger

and more disease resistant
and higher yielding,

but also to make plants that
can become targeted medicine.

[Pete] So what are
we looking at here?

[Nishan] Well, we call this
the Phylos Galaxy,

and, um, each dot

-is a plant, so. .
-A cannabis plant?

A cannabis plant that
we've sequenced the DNA of.

[Pete] How many
have we got listed here?

[Nishan] Oh, there's. . I don't
know, three to five thousand

In my lab only,
I have 700

different types of cannabis,

different chemovars,

that have a different
combination of compounds.

And if you take
all the high CBD strains

that we have
and you check on epilepsy,

how it affect epilepsy,

you see that even
though they have

the same amount
of CBD and THC,

its effect
totally different.

Sometimes
in different mechanism,

a different
compound will bind

different receptor
with effect.

So we need to understand that
cannabis is not one medicine.

[Pete] This enormous
variety of cannabis

comes not from nature,

but from underground breeders.

[Dr. Holmes]
There's this side effect

to advanced breeding work,

which is that you end up
with these elite cultivars

that are
much higher yielding

than the original varieties
you started with.

But we abandon

the genetic diversity
that it came from.

Even though
these higher yielding. .

crops are
supposed to make

our food security
situation much better,

paradoxically,
they've made it much worse

because populations are strong
when they're diverse.

That's what makes
a population. .

robust and powerful.

And the same
is true for humans.

[Uma] We need to understand
how it's produced,

who are the people
producing it?

What is their intention?

Because people
that are producing it

just for profit. .

don't care about
necessarily the patient.

If we don't protect it,

we will create a poison
out of this plant.

[Pete] I've always
believed that to truly heal

and to be healthy,

we need to have a mix
of modern medicine

and ancient wisdom.

We must consider. .

putting our health care
back into our own hands,

or perhaps
our backyards.

[Dustin] People often grow
thyme and rosemary and oregano,

things that make their
foods taste good.

That also have medicinal
properties, right?

There's many herbs that
people grow, and if they don't,

then they ought to,
because

health sovereignty
is quite important

if we rely on some system
to prevent disease

and take care
of our health,

you know, it's unlikely
that we're going to get

optimal results because usually
the goal of that system

is not the same
as the individual's goal.

[Pete] If more people
did this?

Oh my goodness,
we would start

being able
to feed the planet

because that's going to be
a real problem

as we move forward
if we don't all

start growing
what we can

in all of our backyards

to some. .
some capacity.

Whether it's one tomato plant
and two beans,

but we all need
to start planting something

in our backyards.

-[Pete] Even cannabis?
-[Craig] Even cannabis.

[Pete] Would you be proud
to grow cannabis

here in your garden?

That sounds really crazy,
but, um. .

-I. . I would, I would.
-I wouldn't. .

-I would grow it for myself.
-I wouldn't think about it

as being proud.

I would just think about
it as a human right.

This isn't
the only way to live,

but this is
a possible way to live.

And sometimes it's going
to come at a price.

And that meant
that we had to be outlaws. .

for a while until the rest
of the world caught on that

this is
an amazing plant

with amazing potential
and possibilities.

And your daughters'
relationship with this plant,

what do they think like?

They don't think it's any
different than any other thing

that we have growin'
in the garden.

[Fiona] So, yes,
I can grow Valerian,

I can grow
Saint John's wort. .

I can grow
a whole range of herbs

that I can use
for medicinal purposes.

And yet here's
this one plant

that I'm not
allowed to grow.

I think saying
that someone cannot. .

cannot choose
to take that substance

is a human rights issue.

[Dustin] For a person
to really heal and change

they have to have
some shift in their patterns

of thought and in
their patterns of behavior.

Many of my cannabis
using patients come back to me

and say things like,

"I was able to see myself
from a different perspective,

and that helped me solve
some of my challenges.

I was able to step out
of my suffering mindset

and start appreciating
the beautiful things

that were right around me
that I was ignoring before. "

These medicines
seem to have their own agenda.

We named our clinic
Innate Path for a reason

because, you know,
there is innate intelligence

within us guiding us
through these places.

The majority of traditional
psychotherapy

is something called
cognitive behavioral therapy

and in the best of scenarios,
which means, you know,

laboratory idealized
conditions,

you get
an effectiveness rating

of about twenty-two percent
with that.

There's so many things I think
we distrust about nature.

It's wild, it's. . you know,
it's not controllable.

You know, it's. .

just like our emotions
aren't controllable,

you know, and it makes sense
that any kind

of mental health paradigm
that comes out of a society

that's been somewhat
divorced from nature involves

a paradigm of control.

One of the attributes
of cannabis

is sort of
to expand consciousness.

It opens up people
to different ideas,

different interests
and looking at things

with a different perspective.

Now this all sounds
very hippie-dippy,

but when this produces

a tangible improvement in. .

in someone's
adjustment to life,

it's really
an important thing.

Cannabis is. .
has been defined

as a nonspecific amplifier.

Which is a term applied
to other psychedelics

and antigens,
oftentimes, as well.

So what it does is function
as an amplifier of energy,

and it enhances
this present moment

in a variety of ways.

I and others consider it
an advanced spiritual medicine

because to really understand
how to. . you know,

use cannabis
to help you awaken

requires some
basic understanding

of that's what you're doing,
potentially

is you're bringing
yourself into this now moment.

[Pete] All along, I've been
listening to the experts

tell me about
how cannabis heals,

how it feels,
it's sacred nature

and long history.

And I've yet
to take the plunge

and try it
in a new way.

[Daniel] You know,
because we work ceremonially,

right, and intentionally
put a lot of care in the. .

containers
and the image of it,

shows a sense
of respect.

Let's just
take a smell. .

and notice it.

It's there for you.

Very calming,
very peaceful.

It's a blend of about
fifteen different strains.

You know,
all organic and. .

and so this
is what it looks like.

-Uh-huh.
-So, we use a mortar

and pestle
to grind it.

And I call that making
Many Spirits One,

you know,
so like every strain

has a different personality
and a different use.

So in this good way,
I'd like to offer you this pipe

when it turns green,

that's
an indication to imbibe.

You know, we start these
ceremonies by imbibing

the sacred plant ally
into our hearts,

our bodies, our minds
and our spirits.

And we give
thanks for this plant.

This. . this beautiful,
sacred plant medicine. .

Cannabis sativa, for being
so available to us for. .

for the purpose
of exploration and healing. .

and many blessings
on your journey as you explore

this medicine
and all its uses.

Many blessings
to you too, brother.

-[Daniel] Is it turning green?
-She's green.

[Daniel] She's green,
all right, so. .

so, just take a pull and it
might take a couple,

so we'll do a couple,
make sure you're getting

some medicine
and then we'll pause

-and see how you're feeling.
-Okay.

[Daniel] Without losing touch
with the experience,

what do you notice,
what's present for you?

Sadness.

-[Daniel] Sadness.
-Uh-huh, in here.

[Daniel] In your heart?

What else
is there around that,

what do you notice
about that sadness?

What was interesting is
I felt like

there was sadness around
the actual plant itself.

It's like trying
to communicate that.

What do you mean by that,
sadness around the plant?

Like. . Tell me
what you mean by that.

It felt like it was
communicating to me that. .

-[Daniel] It's sad.
-It's sad,

for the perception
and for the. . for the pain.

Yeah.

There's people in jail. .

still for sharing
this medicine.

[Daniel] Yeah.

[Dustin] So where do we begin?

Well, we begin by setting

the cannabis criminal prisoners
that are still in jail,

wasting their lives
by setting them free.

This is something that
has to happen that

a lot of people
aren't talking about.

And we're trying
to come out from that place

where it's just been illegal
and has been condemned

as a dangerous drug.

And so
we're still getting out

from under
that misinformation.

[Jenny] Everything's
been moved out.

I'm just sitting here
with a lot of furniture.

And tomorrow [indistinct]

[sobbing]

[Michael] Jenny called me
when the police

were still
in her house

and said "the police
have raided me"

She was terrified,
she thought

they were going
to drag her away in handcuffs

and she was never
going to see a family again.

I said to Jenny at the time
after the police had left. .

"What do you want to do?
You want to sit back?

Do you want to blend
into the shadows?

Do you want to wait and see
what's going to happen?

Or do you want to do
as I think you should do

and you want to attack?"

She said,
"We're going for it. "

[Pete] While Jenny Hallam
awaits the judge's decision

on whether or not the next
two decades of her life

will be spent
behind bars. .

other countries are paving
the way for the flurry

of new cannabis products
to hit the shelves.

[Marcus] I have eaten it,
I have worn it,

I have used it
medicinally.

I've used it
recreationally,

so I really. . I see cannabis as

a sort of quiver
that offers, I mean,

50,000 commercial products
from hemp.

There's so many things we could
do with this cannabis plant.

We could be
making homes

that are
fire resistant.

We could be
making fabric.

Right now,
cotton is one of the most

heavily pesticided crops
on the face of the Earth,

and cannabis grows
easily outdoors

without pesticides.

[Richard] I don't want
to really be too strong

with the word extinction,
but. .

you know, we are moving
in a new direction

on a planetary level.

Hemp draws carbon
down very fast,

very successfully
and then the application

to convert that carbon

into products that can
benefit humanity

has staggering
significance.

[Brigitte] I know a lot about
a lot of plants,

and I don't know
any other plant

that does so many things.

[Richard] Yes, there are
doubters and yes,

there will be challenges,
but. .

based upon the research
that we've done,

I do not see any reason why
this will not change the world.

[Nora] I believe it
may just be the single most. .

important and beneficial
medicinal plant

that we've ever come into
contact with as a species.

[Dolph] There's no way
our endocannabinoid system

is going to balance itself

because we're so deficient
in everything.

So the cannabis plant says,

"I'm a survivor
if I have to live my life

in a dingy growing tent
with shit nutrients,

well, I will live. "

[Ethan] When a patient
is not getting satisfaction

from their treatment
with conventional medicine,

you can be sure they're going
to be on the search

for something better.

And in so many instances,
this leads them to cannabis.

It's not a magic plant.

I think in general,
out of all the plants,

it has
the most properties,

but it's not
a cure-all to everything

because everybody's individual.

If you look at
all the botanical

and pharmaceutical
medications combined,

it's probably the one that
is the most broadly applicable,

effective and safe.

So it is, you know,
really high up there

as far as
what it can help with,

but it can't help
with everything.

It's not a single solution

to all
our health care problems.

But it has probably
the most amount

of beneficial
properties and uses

compared to
any other plant.

As someone
who was very against it

and to see someone
who has actually

had firsthand
experience with it,

I would say that
medicinal cannabis has not only

saved my life,
but it's given me life again.

If I were going to put it
on to a bell curve,

there's that
small group of patients that. .

it's just not for them.

There's the majority
of patients

who are some time
in their life,

this is going to be a really
valuable medicine for them.

And there's the other
end of the bell curve

where I'd say
they shouldn't go without it.

They just function
a lot better with cannabis.

I know for a fact that

I would not be alive
without cannabis.

A hundred percent,
I know for a fact that

I would not be here.

[Pete] Where do you think
you'd be without this plant

entering your life?

I don't think
you'd be here now.

It's my life support.

I don't even think
he'd be with us now

if it wasn't
for that plant.

Health care providers need
to be reminded that

at the end of the day
we're all patients.

How do we actually
use it to heal?

And how do we
use it to wake up?

How do we use it
to know ourselves better?

There is a consciousness
revolution going on

on this planet
that has to happen

and a significant part
of it,

a central part of it,
is that to discover

that we are
our own healers.

What the world
needs now is to just be

very open minded and creative
about what's going to help us,

what's going to work.

The foundational belief
of holistic medicine. .

is that unconditional love. .

is life's
most powerful healer,

and the path

to optimal health. .

is through self-love.

And cannabis. .

is a very effective tool. .

for facilitating
that process of. .

heightening and expanding

your capacity to love.

I am an optimistic person,

a very optimistic person,

and I do believe
that good will win out,

that love will win out,

that when politicians hear
more of the personal stories,

when they meet the people,

when they see the. .
the joy

that this plant
is bringing

to people's lives,
that that will win.

Any cannabis is better
than no cannabis,

right here right now
on this planet.

This plant is magical
beyond belief.

I believe
in the love tribe.

It's out there,
it's getting stronger.

People want to be good,
people want to have community,

people want
to save the Earth.

People want. .
people just want to be happy

and they want their neighbor
to be happy.

[Dolph] It is the pinnacle
of what we are.

If I'm allowed to spread
and go forth like this,

what's happening
on our farm,

well I'll show you
a better version of cannabis

that you cannot believe
is possible.

[Pete] I guess
that's just the nature

of this
incredible plant.

To send its seeds into

a future that's hopefully
better and brighter.

A survivor
in a rapidly changing world. .

like us.

I'm still not sure
if this is the magic plant.

Or just another miraculous
part of Mother Nature.

But I do know this.

Whatever it takes for humans
to live and love well

and stick around this
beautiful garden long enough

to appreciate it
in ever more harmonious ways,

more and more
every day. .

now that's the seed
I really wish to plant.

[didgeridoo instrumental]

[upbeat guitar music]

♪ Miles and miles ♪

♪ The tongues of the ocean ♪

♪ Tarmac and teenage tears ♪

♪ Life it just happens ♪

♪ Those roads and the lessons ♪

♪ Always from things I feared ♪

♪ When I was young ♪

♪ I cared for no one ♪

♪ I had my fun ♪

♪ But I was broken ♪

♪ Piece by piece ♪

♪ Stone by stone. . ♪

Vitamin C,
magnesium, electrolytes.

From five minutes ago.

♪ . is above as below ♪

♪ Where is my home? ♪

♪ Where's my garden ♪

♪ When I'm alone ♪

[Craig]
So, Pete, this is, you know,

we're talking about,
these are daikons.

[Pete] We should see it
in close-up.

But they. .
they probably have other

characteristics
that would come out.

-[Pete] We ferment them.
-Oh,

betcha that would be amazing.

♪ Love with condition ♪

♪ A family tradition ♪

♪ Don't make it
Right or wrong ♪

♪ Now for the reverse ♪

♪ Of pain to you endured ♪

♪ You were the strongest one ♪

♪ When you were young ♪

[man] Okay, ready.

We'll do it over there.
So can we see the crude oil?

-Yes, let's go.
-Awesome.

Show me the way.

It does smell good in here.

It smells really good.

So they're the terpenes?

Yes, absolutely,
the terpene profile

is what you're smelling.

Hello.

[dog and Pete
barking at each other]

[dog barking]

♪ . is above as below ♪

♪ We'll build our home ♪

♪ We'll grow a garden ♪

♪ When we get old ♪

♪ Will we stay open? ♪

♪ Open ♪

♪ Open ♪

♪ Will we stay open? ♪

[Jenny] Ben, do you want
any of this?

[Ben] Yeah, I'll take some.

[Pete] We'll do us first.

This plant
is really hearty.

We have it coming up
in our yard

and we didn't even
plant it.

It comes up
in the spring

a month before
we can grow anything else.

And I don't water it
and it still survives.

I mean, it's amazing.

♪ You are my home ♪

♪ You are my garden ♪

♪ When we get old ♪

♪ Will we stay open? ♪

♪ Open ♪

♪ Open ♪

♪ Will we stay open? ♪

I would love to believe
that humanity is waking up.