When: Wednesday, April 18, 2018
6:30 - Doors Open
7:00 - Screening
7:25 - Discussion
Reception to follow
Where: The London Hotel, Screening Room, 1020 N San Vicente Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069
What:
“The Life She Deserves,” a new documentary short film from Brookings is an intimate portrait of Jennifer Collins and her family’s struggle to find a treatment to control her debilitating epilepsy. Because her legal pharmaceutical treatments cause severe side effects, Jennifer and her mother move across the country to Colorado to access medical marijuana. The therapy provides Jennifer and her family with the relief they once feared was unobtainable, but they are now faced with the stigma and legal uncertainty that surround the use of medical cannabis.
The Collins family’s struggle to treat Jennifer’s illness sheds light on the dysfunctional relationship between federal and state laws that results in confusion and unimaginable obstacles and uncertainty for patients and families who need help.
On April 18, Variety and the Brookings Institution will host a screening of “The Life She Deserves” followed by a discussion on the role of film to affect policy and the current picture of state-level marijuana legalization and federal restrictions on the use of and clinical research into medical marijuana.
Following their conversation, panelists will take audience questions.