Police say they are “assessing criminality” after an East Kilbride mum admitted smuggling cannabis oil into the country to save her severely epileptic son’s life.

In the hard-hitting BBC documentary Disclosure: Can Cannabis Save My son? ex-cop Lisa Quarrell told how she had broken the law by bringing cannabis-based Bedrolite from the Netherlands to treat six-year-old Cole Thomson.

According to the Home Office, it is illegal to bring the drug into the country without an import licence.

The mum-of-two told the East Kilbride News yesterday she hasn’t yet had any contact from the police.

A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: “No complaint has been made regarding this issue.

“However, we are currently looking into the circumstances surrounding this situation following media coverage to assess criminality.”

Cole Thomson has focal epilepsy and suffered multiple daily seizures

Lisa, 38, said she lives in constant fear of retribution for dosing her own child, but admits “it’s worth it to have my son back”.

The News has followed Cole’s journey since the youngster went through invasive brain surgery at the age of two and has backed his family’s fight for a whole plant medical cannabis cure on the NHS.

The medical cannabis oil contains less than one per cent THC, the psychoactive compound that gives a feeling of being “high”.

But, despite a law change last year, Lisa has been unable to get a prescription for the drug she is convinced is helping her boy.

Lisa started travelling to the Netherlands to bring back cannabis-based Bedrolite for Cole in March this year.

A former Strathclyde police officer for 10 years, Lisa said that she never imagined she would break the law.

But the Unison Lothian health worker has forked out thousands on trips to bring the drug back, with each bottle costing £160.

She told how she smuggled the drug past border guards in her luggage on flights from Amsterdam.

Lisa Quarrell appeared on BBC Disclosure: Can Cannabis Save My Child?

After a recent smuggling trip, Lisa said: “I’ve just walked through the airport and seen police officers I used to work with.

“The whole time, I know that I’m about to pick up my baggage that’s got an illegal drug in it.”

Explaining why she decided to break the law to save her child, Lisa said: “I’d sell my house, I would.

“I can’t let Cole get sicker. I need to get him better.

“There’s nothing else for it.”

Brave Cole was one of only 10 children in the UK to get access to CBD oil on the NHS but it wasn’t strong enough to stop his seizures

The health board responsible for Cole’s care said they could not discuss his case.

Public funds are now being put into trialling more cannabis medicines – and new NICE guidelines are due in October 2019.

Both the UK and the Scottish government have said that, as things stand, whether or not to write a prescription for medical cannabis will remain a “clinical decision”.

MP Lisa Cameron has expressed her frustration over the failure of the NHS to issue prescriptions to patients in need of medicinal cannabis in Westminster.

Commenting this week, she said: “The current system is clearly not working for families who are understandably desperate to receive the necessary medicine for their children, as in the case of EK’s Cole Thomson.

“Due to lack of coordination between the UK Government legislation and NHS, families cannot access medicinal cannabis free of charge and are now being forced to go abroad to try to avoid astronomical costs.

“Since we have assisted Cole’s mother Lisa Quarrell to attain a UK prescription, I have written to Cabinet Secretary Jeane Freeman to request that NHS Scotland cover costs of this to make sure that the medication is available free of charge to the family to meet Cole’s care needs”.

Disclosure: Can Cannabis Save My Child? is now available on the BBC iplayer.