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14 caregiver focus cannabis patient care | vol. 2 no. 2 cannapatientcare.com made in a good, sustainable way. Eventually the family was introduced to the Stanley Brothers and Joel Stanley in par ticular (4). The Stanley Brothers have run a medicinal cannabis oper- ation for quite some time. When they met with the Figi fami- ly, they had one par ticular strain of cannabis that they called the "Hippie's Disappointment" because it was low in THC. "What's funny about this is they knew it was unique," said Matt. "They knew it had proper ties off the char ts that were helpful and medicinal, but they couldn't really find anyone interested in it because it didn't give the typical associated psychoactive high." Matt pointed out that when they initially met, Joel Stanley was hesitant to give this hemp CBD product to a child. Several other people that the Figi's met with seemed more focused on profits rather than the patient. "I just have to say with speci- ficity, Joel is the only medical cannabis provider that showed any amount of hesitancy, care for the patient, or reluctancy in doing this," he said. "Everyone just wanted to make a buck ex- cept for him. To be honest, that's why we chose him—that's why we went with the Stanley Brothers—because they actually care about what they do." The Stanley Brothers went on to name their company in Charlotte's honor; it is now known world-wide as Charlotte's Web (5). The Stanley Brothers are a unique family of seven brothers that set out on a mission to help medical cannabis patients. According to their website (6), the brothers initially focused on helping cancer patients by researching the poten- tial health benefits of CBD and other cannabinoids. A state- ment on their website reads (6), "This endeavor led them to search for the optimal genetics, ultimately discovering them in wild hemp that grew across middle America. These genetics would later become the basis of their hemp-based CBD prod- ucts, named after a brave little girl, Charlotte Figi, who strug- gled with catastrophic epilepsy." Of course, CBD was not a cure-all for Charlotte. Matt stat- ed that it gave a tremendous improvement to her quality of life and reduced the frequency of her seizures. "She went from having 300 tonic-clonic seizures each week to maybe 1-3 a month," he said. "This treatment allowed for so many things to happen. It allowed her to get her quality of life back. She Charlotte and her dad in a rock band. Photo courtesy of Candy Jackson. Matt and Charlotte on a father-daughter rafting adventure in 2015. Photo courtesy of Candy Jackson.