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Title: Boy Using Cannabis Oil: ‘I’d Rather Be Illegally Alive Than Legally Dead’
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CBS Denver
URL Source: http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/06/ ... gally-alive-than-legally-dead/
Published: Jun 15, 2015
Author: CBS Denver
Post Date: 2016-02-08 17:55:14 by Deckard
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Views: 1077
Comments: 5
There is new research on the use of marijuana as medicine in Colorado and a Marijuana and Health Symposium at National Jewish Health on Saturday explored nearly a dozen studies looking at using pot for things like seizures and insomnia. “I’d rather be illegally alive than legally dead,” said 15-year-old Coltyn Turner. Coltyn Turner (credit: CBS) Four times a day Coltyn takes his medicine. It’s cannabis oil used to treat his Crohn’s disease, an illness he’s been fighting since age 11, and up until last year it looked like a battle he was losing. “I was just on every pharmaceutical there was out there until I would up in a wheelchair,” Coltyn said. “He got sick and we had no other options,” Coltyn’s mother Wendy Turner said. Desperate for a miracle his parents moved him from the Midwest to Colorado in 2014 and turned to cannabis oil. “We thought, ‘Well, why not try?’ And it worked,” Wendy said. RELATED: Colorado’s Medical Marijuana Studies Are An ‘Opportunity To Guide The Nation’ Their case was just one shared at National Jewish Health’s Marijuana and Health Symposium. Watch the local report below… “We are very proud of this program in terms of the potential,” said Ken Gershman with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said. Gershman says nine current and upcoming studies are looking at marijuana as a treatment for illnesses stretching from insomnia and inflammatory bowel disease to post-traumatic stress disorder. Coltyn Turner (credit: CBS) “We can’t bury our heads in the sand. We need to learn more and make sensible decisions based on evidence,” Gershman said. As for Coltyn, whose gone from hospital beds, to Colorado mountaintops, his family hopes the research leads to action, which will allow families like them to have cannabis oil as a first option, rather than a last resort. “We want people to understand that this is a good option,” Wendy said. Saturday’s conference was an opportunity for health care providers and citizens to learn about the latest research into medical marijuana. 
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
"The Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America does not endorse (the smoking of) marijuana by IBD patients, any current state-based medical marijuana programs, or the legalization of marijuana."
Must be because in this case and in many others, cannabis actually works. Four times a day Coltyn takes his medicine. It’s cannabis oil used to treat his Crohn’s disease, an illness he’s been fighting since age 11, and up until last year it looked like a battle he was losing. “I was just on every pharmaceutical there was out there until I would up in a wheelchair,” Coltyn said. “He got sick and we had no other options,” Coltyn’s mother Wendy Turner said. Desperate for a miracle his parents moved him from the Midwest to Colorado in 2014 and turned to cannabis oil. “We thought, ‘Well, why not try?’ And it worked,” Wendy said. You would rather see him legally dead than illegally alive. What a reprehensible, sick little man you are. In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much You would think The Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America would know about that. Yet they're still against it. Gosh. Maybe it doesn't work after all.
Cannabis oil is not smoked. It's taken orally.
Marijuana is not approved by the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America. Smoking it merely adds additional dangers.
#2. To: misterwhite (#1)
"The Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America does not endorse (the smoking of) marijuana by IBD patients, any current state-based medical marijuana programs, or the legalization of marijuana."
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#3. To: Deckard (#2)
"Must be because in this case and in many others, cannabis actually works."
#4. To: misterwhite (#1)
"The Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America does not endorse (the smoking of) marijuana by IBD patients
#5. To: Pinguinite (#4)
"Cannabis oil is not smoked. It's taken orally."
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