Feature of Month
22-Year-Old Coltyn Turner
Blazing Trails for Suffering Children
Fighting for legal access to plant-based remedies for those suffering with debilitating illnesses .
by Clayton Stallings , The EVOLUTION Magazine
passion for helping kids suffering from debilitating illnesses led to his receiving the 2015 Cannabis Advocate of the Year Award only one year after his journey started . He has been fortunate to receive the 2020 Up and Coming Cannabis Activist , named to the Top 5 Cannabis influencers , been on TV , in magazines , and even in a movie featuring his story . Coltyn , with the help of his parents , also created the standard of dosing for Crohn ’ s patients across the world .
Coltyn Turner
Coltyn is now 22 years old and was the recent recipient of the Blood , Sweat and Tears Philanthropy Award from the Crohn ’ s Charity Service Foundation , a non-for-profit organization helping low-income consumers by facilitating access to medical help , including pharmaceuticals and medicinal cannabis and hemp for those suffering from Crohn ’ s Disease . The Blood , Sweat and Tears Award was established in 2019 to recognize people in the cannabis industry for the charity work they do . In 2019 , Coltyn founded the Coltyn Turner Foundation . The mission is to raise funds to create ethical , comprehensive , patient-driven , observational , and anecdotal research surveys as a base for triple-blind studies while promoting and advocating for good cannabis legalization . He ’ s been doing this work since he was 13 .
When we think of what the future will look like , we always need to look at the past . In the cannabis industry , we don ’ t have to look very far ; this is a new and emerging industry still in its infancy . But when we do look back , we see kids like Coltyn Turner .
Coltyn started his cannabis journey when he was only 13 . Riddled with the pain and inflammation of Crohn ’ s disease , Coltyn ’ s only hope and last resort was moving to Colorado to try cannabis . He had failed all westernized medications , turned to cannabis for relief , and found it . Within seven months of using cannabis for his Crohn ’ s disease , Coltyn ’ s colonoscopy showed no active disease . Cannabis alone had put him in remission , and cannabis has kept him in remission for the last nine years . For those last nine years , Coltyn has advocated for cannabis reform in numerous states and Canada . His
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Coltyn Turner receives The Blood , Sweat and Tears Award in November at the 2022 Cannabis Philanthropist Awards in Las Vegas , NV .
“ I am so honored to receive this award ,” Coltyn told The EVOLUTION Magazine . “ I accepted this for all the kids that are still suffering in states that don ’ t have access to cannabis . The future of cannabis is in the hands of the kids like me that started using cannabis in the infancy of this industry . I hope I can make the kids that come after me proud and that they will never have to suffer like I did .”
Coltyn was among a host of recipients like Dr . Uma Dhanabalan , Chloe Villano , Dan Herer , Wanda James , and Tommy Chong , to name a few .