…originally a piece of journalism in Harper. You know, Harper is okay. I'm not there to read the 200-year retrospective on Charlotte Bronte's personal diary. But at the same time, if you're patient, there's always something interesting in every edition. Oh, I…

…But I think it's entirely safe to say that in some instances, particularly the very well publicized instance of a child named Charlotte, CBD does help with seizures, right? The story as it was publicized is true. And for those who don't know, Dr. Sanjay…

…who don't know, Dr. Sanjay Gupta released a documentary called Weed on CNN in 2013 that brought the story of this child Charlotte who had crippling seizures as a result of her Dravet syndrome into the public eye, and it was immensely successful. It was…

…are the genetics we worked with to bring this back up. And the reason why we did it, again, wasn't specifically for Charlotte or for her condition. that was the lightning in a bottle. That was the perfect storm and kind of divine, fortuitous, whatever…

…gonna keep putting her through this. Like she doesn't deserve to live like this. What year is this? This is 2012. I met Charlotte in February 2012. Paige Figge had also, there was one other family in California, a little boy named Jaden, who they had…

…about how they're working with it. They're gonna see what it does. He connected us. I sat down with her, with Paige and Charlotte. First time I met Paige, she opens the door and she's got Charlotte in her arms. Within five minutes of sitting down at…

…connected us. I sat down with her, with Paige and Charlotte. First time I met Paige, she opens the door and she's got Charlotte in her arms. Within five minutes of sitting down at their kitchen table, Charlotte goes into one of those seizures right that…

…met Paige, she opens the door and she's got Charlotte in her arms. Within five minutes of sitting down at their kitchen table, Charlotte goes into one of those seizures right that was the first time i'd ever seen like a long grand maltonic clonic seizure…

…amount? You know, where do you start? So I ended up making a like 50 milligram per milliliter tincture in olive oil and Charlotte started taking it and her first week she went, you know, it was a slow titration, but still it was pretty immediate. Her…

…this is N of one. So I'm not terribly excited yet, but I'm like, this, let's see, continue to happen for her, right? Charlotte lived from that point on until she got a respiratory infection right after COVID. Right after she had COVID, she passed in…

…also have to give a huge debt of gratitude. Heather and Paige, those two are first responders to the medicine, their children, Charlotte and Zakai, those two with me and two of my brothers, Jesse and Jared, ended up being the first and longstanding, for…

…years, board of directors of what would become Charlotte's Web. So it was really this community experience where the results of Charlotte turned into the results of Zakai. And at one point, Zakai went four years seizure-free. right zakai when he would have…

…out, saw Charlotte's story and told the story on CNN, which will be August, 2013, a year and a half after I met Charlotte, we already had hundreds of families moving to Colorado. through these little Facebook groups. Highest honor of my life to get to…

…Colorado. We still have, you know, kind of commemorative parties about it. So that's that was the phenomenon. Had it been just Charlotte and that were an isolated success story. That would have never happened. But the fact that it's still to this day…

…chemo and wasting syndrome because of using cannabis. But nevertheless, we got there. And that's why I think the story of Charlotte is one of the most important events for legalization across the globe, academic acceptance. I was taking Charlotte's story to…

…her name's Sage and she's whatever she is now, you know, 12 years old, still using Charlotte's web, right? Profound story, but Charlotte, that was five at the time, now we've got a six-month-old, and we've got a nine-month-old, and we've got all these…

…And that goes to the point of all we knew was we couldn't change. We at least had to leave one product intact for Charlotte. If no one else for Charlotte and those first people that did have results from it. But we don't know. Does this come down…

…point of all we knew was we couldn't change. We at least had to leave one product intact for Charlotte. If no one else for Charlotte and those first people that did have results from it. But we don't know. Does this come down to even some of the most…

…later. So now we've got a plant that qualifies as hemp. We can go from greenhouse, in which we're growing six plants for Charlotte, six plants for this kid. Think of the time it takes the supply chain to build when you have 15,000 people waiting and…

…started shipping. So none of this could have happened without that perfect storm of regulatory events happening. None of them having to do with Charlotte story, by the way. Wow. Just got to the top of a 511B, not trying to brag. I think I did it with…

…registration and a few others do has a lot to do with the story of cannabis, a lot to do with the story of Charlotte. And I won't give it all to Charlotte. She was the marketable one. She was the the like that hockey stick moment in which…

…a lot to do with the story of cannabis, a lot to do with the story of Charlotte. And I won't give it all to Charlotte. She was the marketable one. She was the the like that hockey stick moment in which perception changed. Now we have so many stories…