Weed the People

The documentary follows families whose children are being treated for cancer. The families keep up the medical treatment. Alongside it they use products made from cannabis. The aim is to ease pain and side effects. Some families say they have seen tumours shrink. The film gives room to those accounts. The documentary follows several families over a long stretch. Hope and setback are shown together. The legal position differs from state to state. Getting hold of the products is not easy. There is no common measure for dose or content. The obstacles in the way of research are described. The film is a work that argues for this use. The results described are what the families and the film report. Mara Gordon and Tracy Ryan appear in the ninety eight minute documentary. It is an American production Abby Epstein finished in 2018.