Cole Thomson pays £1,500 a month for medicine to stop his 20 seizures a day.
An East Kilbride mum whose 10-year-old son relies on cannabis medicine due to his rare form of epilepsy has called on Scotland's new First Minister to cut the red tape to end her battle for government funding.
Despite the "clear evidence" in Cole's case a four-year battle for government funding has resulted in nothing, leaving the family no option but to keep paying for a private medical cannabis prescription. Lisa said: "We need help to cut through the bureaucratic red tape in this two-tiered system of our NHS, where Cole seems to have become a political football.
Through a host of fundraising events from the end of last year into 2023 - Cole's Christmas Wish Campaign in partnership with Equi's Ice Cream, a Spice Burns Supper for Cole's Marvellous Medicine and Cole's Race Night - enough money has been raised to pay for two year's worth of medicine. Sign up to Glasgow Live's newsletter Get all the latest Glasgow news and headlines sent straight to your inbox twice a day by signing up to our free newsletter.The morning newsletter arrives every day before 9am and the evening newsletter, manually curated by the team, is sent between 4pm and 5pm, giving you a round up of the most important stories we've covered that day.
The Scottish Government say that while they have "enormous sympathy" for Cole Thomson and his family, the regulation, licensing and supply of Cannabis Based Products for Medicinal Use remain reserved to the UK Government and it has "no power" to alter this.
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