
Stoned Kids
Mykayla Comstock is eight years old, living in Pendleton, Oregon, and taking large daily doses of marijuana to treat her leukemia. This Vice Weediquette episode follows her family and the community around them who believe cannabis does more than ease chemotherapy's side effects, that it can actually shrink tumors, a claim with almost no clinical evidence behind it. Medical marijuana is legal in twenty states and the District of Columbia at the time of filming, but pediatric use remains its most contentious edge case, and the film sits with parents who have decided to act before the science catches up. Interviews with Mykayla's family lay out the daily reality of dosing a child with a drug still classified as a controlled substance federally, while doctors and skeptics push back on the curative claims circulating in the medical marijuana community. The film does not resolve the argument. It stays with a family who chose to try anyway, and a child whose treatment has become a test case for a much larger debate.