Lanarkshire schoolboy Cole Thomson was at the heart of Holyrood's first ever members' debate on access to medicinal cannabis.
Led by East Kilbride MSP Collette Stevenson who highlighted the nine-year-old's desperate plight, members of the cross-party group on medicinal cannabis called the debate "long overdue" and made impassioned pleas to parliament to recognise cannabis oil as a "critical lifeline" to patients like Cole.
However, to Cole's mum's disappointment, notably absent on the day (June 1) was Health Minister Humza Yousaf, with Kevin Stewart, Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social Care instead answering members' questions.
