Boy Using Cannabis OIl: ‘I’d Rather Be Illegally Alive Than Legally Dead’

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DENVER (CBS4) – 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.

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...

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