JACKSONVILLE, IL (WAND) - Growing up, Coltyn Turner's health was a priority for his parents. It was nearly a decade ago when his mother, Wendy, and her husband looked to cannabis with his crohn's disease. When he was first diagnosed, Wendy said her son was getting ill and medicine wasn't working at it should.Â
"Coltyn was on morphine. Coltyn was on Oxycontin," Wendy said.Â
He doesn't take those kind of prescribed drugs anymore. As of now, the 18-year-old treats crohns with CBD, THC and terpene oils. To Wendy, cannabis saved her son's life. Choosing to use marijuana to deal with his crohns was a tough decision for the Turner's; even tougher when they chose to move to Colorado when the state legalized recreational use. Wendy said his cannabis treatment keeps him alive and out of his crohn's flares.Â
The Turner family have traveled across the states, pushing for cannabis legalization. Specifically, they want family's to have open access to it for medical use. Wendy said it would help families who don't have many options for treatment.Â
"Its very very common," Wendy said. "He's not the only person in the world that has used cannabis for crohn's disease."Â
It should be noted, lawmakers recently approved the use of medical marijuana in place of prescribed pain killers. Governor Bruce Rauner has the choice to sign it into law.Â
