WEST HARTFORD — When John Buckley of West Hartford read this column in November, he had to speak out. The story of a local mother, desperate to give her s...

WEST HARTFORD -- When John Buckley of West Hartford read this column in November, he had to speak out. The story of a local mother, desperate to give her severely epileptic son a marijuana-based oil that appears to be helping kids in Colorado, hit home.

Paige Figi believes the oil changed her daughter's life. Nevertheless, it is not legal in her home state of Connecticut, a fact that advocates are trying to change.