A Scots mum claims the Scottish Government has ignored her pleas to make lifesaving cannabis oil available on the NHS for her son. Lisa Quarrell’s eight-year-old son Cole Thomson has drug-resistant focal epilepsy – a condition which means he suffers from severe seizures which cannot be stopped or controlled by conventional medication. Since he began
A Scots mum claims the Scottish Government has ignored her pleas to make lifesaving cannabis oil available on the NHS for her son.
Lisa Quarrell’s eight-year-old son Cole Thomson has drug-resistant focal epilepsy – a condition which means he suffers from severe seizures which cannot be stopped or controlled by conventional medication.
Since he began taking the oil – knowns as Bedrolite – Cole, of East Kilbride, has gone from suffering 10 seizures a night to being completely seizure free for almost two years.
Mum Lisa, 39, hit the headlines back in 2019 when she smuggled the oil in from Holland after Cole, then six, was left unable to walk, talk or eat after a violent seizure.
Medics told a distraught Lisa that, as conventional medicines used for treating epileptic seizure were no longer effective, there was nothing they could do and his organs began to shut down.
