'Mommy lobby': Parents turn to medical marijuana to cure kids' seizures

Charlotte’s Web is a cannabis oil made by a Colorado medical marijuana dispensary — and when used by children who suffer debilitating types of epilepsy, it appears to actually stop them from having seizures. Even though this compound has extremely low levels of THC and doesn’t get them high, it’s still a controversial treatment. But there’s so much red tape to seek federal approval for a federally illegal drug that a movement in Colorado has grown up around families to carefully track, test and share info about dosage.

This Sunday on TechKnow, contributor and molecular neuroscientist Crystal Dilworth meets a mom whose son is now 16 months seizure-free. We go inside the lab at the medical marijuana production facility where Charlotte’s Web is made and talk to the researchers who are taking a similar drug to the first U.S. clinical trials.

Watch TechKnow on Al Jazeera America this Sunday at 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT