Third-grader leading Colorado measure to allow schools to administer medical marijuana

GYPSUM Nine-year-old Quintin Lovato loves baseball. He wants to enjoy life normally, but his medical conditions are hurdles that he sometimes cannot get over without help.

Quintin, a third-grader from Gypsum, is living with epilepsy and Tourettes syndrome. That means his family is, too.

The family found relief in a cannabis oil called Haleighs Hope. If Quintin takes it three times a day, as his doctor has prescribed, then his physical and vocal tics are vastly improved and his grand mal seizures largely disappear.

Quintins parents, Hannah and Ron Lovato, have four other children ...