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TREY BROWN: I used to like cry myself to sleep every night. That was really hard.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Every day, Trey struggled with headaches so severe, his parents say he was suicidal. And traditional medication wasn`t working. The Browns brought cannabis oil back home.</s>TREY BROWN: I felt better, all huh. The pain went away.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When authorities learned Angela was giving Trey cannabis drops, they charged her with two misdemeanors, including child endangerment.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The prosecutor`s version of this is that a good mom allows her child to be in pain to self-harm and to attempt to take his life. I guess that`s a good mom in his eye.</s>PINSKY: Back with Sam and our behavior bureau, Judy, Evy and Leeann. Tonight, we have a poll. Should a mom be charged with a crime for having given her son medical marijuana? Effectively, go hln.com for slash Dr. Drew right now. Vote on our poll. We will reveal the results in our after-show on Facebook. You see what`s going on there right now. You guys are pretty clear in your opinions. Evy, what she did was illegal. But the question is, should she be punished?</s>POUMPOURAS: I think this mother should go get herself a very good defense attorney and this defense attorney should protect her and try to defend her at all costs. It makes me sad to see that she could possibly get two years when other individuals, serious criminals .</s>PINSKY: Right.</s>POUMPOURAS: Who intentionally offend and commit crimes, don`t - sometimes go walk away with probation. Absolutely, this is very difficult thing to see. I understand she broke the law, but there are times where as human beings we have to look at the law and say what`s wrong with this law.</s>PINSKY: And then Leeann, should - spend that money with the defense attorneys? Come on now.</s>TWEEDEN: Well, hopefully somebody will do that pro bono for her because this is such a big case.</s>PINSKY: Please.</s>TWEEDEN: Someone is. Someone is.</s>PINSKY: OK. Sam, tell me. Tell me.</s>SCHACHER: Well, I don`t know very much information, just that I know that somebody that`s pro-marijuana legalization attorney .</s>PINSKY: Well, I`ll tell you what.</s>SCHACHER: . is representing her pro bono.</s>PINSKY: I will only put that person certainly on our website and talk to him, maybe even on the show by - producers. But Judy, go ahead.</s>HO: Well, I was just saying, Dr. Drew, that this is one of those complex moral dilemmas they actually give you in school when you`re learning about how to make decisions and how to actually think morally. And it`s that story of, a mother who, you know, runs into the pharmacy after hours and steals the medication because she doesn`t have money for it just so she can cure her child, is that right or wrong thing to do? And I would hope that our society and people in general would actually see this as, you know what, this is a complex moral dilemma where she was trying to help her child. Instead of attributing that intention to something where she would actually harm her child.</s>TWEEDEN: And Dr. Drew, you know, she said that a doctor had told her about the cannabis oil.</s>PINSKY: Yeah.</s>TWEEDEN: Could he be held responsible or could he maybe help defend her in court?</s>PINSKY: Let`s get some of those details. I`ve got Trey`s mother on the phone, Angela Brown and as well as her attorney, Michael Hughes. Now, Angela, the law enforcement has taken the cannabis oil away, my understanding is. How is Trey doing without it?</s>ANGELA BROWN, MOM CHARGED FOR GIVING SOM MEDICAL MARIJUANA: He`s not doing well.</s>PINSKY: Yeah.</s>ANGELA BROWN: He`s not.</s>PINSKY: All right. And - I only want to know, I`m just getting so angry about this. I`m so sorry. I`m sorry that people will not put the patient first. I don`t understand. I do not understand that. It just makes me crawl out of my skin. Was it -- is there a physician advising you? In other words, the only thing that bothers me about what you did is that you`re sort of playing doctor. Is there somebody serving that role for you?</s>ANGELA BROWN: I had suggestions from a couple of doctors that we try it. So no, I didn`t just go into a back alley and buy marijuana.</s>PINSKY: Right.</s>ANGELA BROWN: And researched it by the bed. I had the suggestion from a doctor. But because the two states where my son doctors -- it was illegal at the time, so, no, of course not, they can`t just write a prescription and say, you know --</s>PINSKY: And to get things - to make this crazier, it`s going to be legal in 2015 in your state, right?</s>ANGELA BROWN: Yes.</s>PINSKY: So you are going to - and now magically it`s a bad drug, and soon it`s going to be a good drug. Our thinking on this is so weird and draconian.</s>SCHACHER: It is.</s>PINSKY: And it makes people suffer. Oh, we could - but I`m sure they offer you good drugs like opiate pain medication, right?</s>ANGELA BROWN: But the problem was, is that the medications he was on, caused him harm. And that`s what led us to the desperation of seeking out medicinal cannabis.</s>PINSKY: Why should that be a desperation? That shouldn`t be a desperate move. That should be an - move, it`s like we`re going to find a treatment that works for him. It`s an option. Did you contemplate any of the other anti-seizure</s>ANGELA BROWN: Trey has been on many, many --</s>PINSKY: No, no, of cannabis. But listen, Angela, there are anti-seizure components of cannabis. Did you go after any of those, like try to get any of the research protocols that are under way, anything like that?</s>ANGELA BROWN: It`s really hard to understand you, because you are on my phone, but we - what we did, because we live in a state where it`s not legal, so it`s hard to just -- and we have limited funds, so it wasn`t like I could just go to Oregon and get him into a study or spend weeks and weeks in Colorado trying to figure things out. We had to do the research that we could at home, and then we literally just fell into these amazingly kind, loving people in Colorado that helped us out.</s>PINSKY: Sam.</s>ANGELA BROWN: And helped us along the way.</s>PINSKY: Sam, what is the reaction like on social media? On Facebook page?</s>SCHACHER: It`s varied, Dr. Drew. So I have from Antonio, "If I did that I would be charged, no excuse to break the law." From Anjelica, "He needed a medical marijuana card from the doctor, so the law is the law. Next time she should be smarter about what she is doing."</s>PINSKY: So, they`re sort of negative.</s>SCHACHER: It switches. From Debbie, "If it`s against the law, duh." From Daniel, "This is ridiculous. Moms are being treated like criminals for trying to make their children pain free." Nurse Amy, "Hell, no, she shouldn`t - she tried traditional medications, they didn`t work. As his mother, she took it to the next level to get some relief for her child, I do the same in a heartbeat. And finally from Erin, "Another stupid charge against a mother who obviously cares for her son, risking jail to help him. She should be commended in court, not charged." I agree.</s>PINSKY: Evy, do you get what I`m concerned about? That there`s this weird moralizing about treatment of medical illness. Why do we have to have a moralistic attitude about this? It`s bizarre.</s>POUMPOURAS: It`s because the situation here, she broke the law. And even though it`s going to be legal in the future, that`s what ex- post factor is. If the law -- whatever the law is at that time. So she intentionally made a decision to break the law and that`s the way they`re looking at it. And they`re probably maybe trying to set an example with her so that other people don`t do the same thing, because you have Colorado and these bordering states where there`s a lot of discontent amongst the people that cross the border, they go get drugs, they come back. So then it comes to the fact, it`s like so how many times are you going to excuse this, so to speak? But I do think that if they want to charge her, fine. But putting her in jail, having her serve a sentence just for trying to do the right thing, that`s where it starts to get ugly. That`s where you have to kind of on a moral level say you know what? At what point, fine, you want to punish her to a point, fine. But then you have to stop and think of it from a rational perspective, a moral perspective. She was trying to do the right thing.</s>PINSKY: Judy. Of course she was.</s>HO: And if she gets sentenced and put in jail, then you`re taking her away from a son ..</s>SCHACHER: Right.</s>HO: That obviously needs her and is sick right now.</s>SCHACHER: A caregiver.</s>PINSKY: OK.</s>SCHACHER: So, that`s terrible.</s>PINSKY: It`s just - It makes me sick. Angela, listen, I hope people are supporting you appropriately and I hope things turn out well. Are you optimistic about this?</s>ANGELA BROWN: I am. I just feel that, you know, the negative people out there have never been in my shoes. They never had to hold their child down while he was trying to kill himself. So, until you`re in that place, you can`t say anything, you know? And I do have hope for the future, and it might not be here in this state. It might have to be in a state where it`s welcome to treat your child with medicinal cannabis.</s>PINSKY: The only warn I would give to you is that your son sounds like a complex case. And please .</s>ANGELA BROWN: It is.</s>PINSKY: Yeah, please get proper physician followup.</s>ANGELA BROWN: And he does have several doctors. Yes.</s>PINSKY: OK. Good.</s>ANGELA BROWN: He does even have a doctor in Colorado.</s>PINSKY: OK.</s>ANGELA BROWN: Yes. This was not our first route.</s>PINSKY: No, I understand - I understand it.</s>ANGELA BROWN: It`s not the first route.</s>PINSKY: I just - I get it. The one thing I`ve always objected to with medical marijuana is when it becomes bad practice of medicine. Just make sure you get good people taking proper care and really being smart and thinking .</s>SCHACHER: Good luck, Angela.</s>PINSKY: Yeah, good luck, Angela.</s>ANGELA BROWN: Everything that I`ve done .</s>PINSKY: I have no doubt. But we`ve got to go. Thank you for joining us. And again, we wish you luck. All right, next up, a quick update on Hannah Graham after this.