ALMOST three years since her home was raided by police and her underground medicinal cannabis oil distribution operation was shut down, Hillier woman Jenny Hallam finally feels vindicated.

The 47-year-old escaped conviction and was instead entered into a two year, $1000 bond in the Adelaide District Court last Thursday after pleading guilty to two counts of manufacturing a controlled drug and possessing cannabis oil for supply.

Ms Hallam’s home was raided on January 4, 2017, when police seized material and equipment used to extract cannabis oil and numerous containers of cannabis oil.

She has always claimed she manufactured the cannabis oil to give away to sick people searching for an alternative method of treatment, something District Court Judge Rauf Soulio accepted when sentencing her.

Ms Hallam said Judge Soulio’s finding was yet to sink in.

“I definitely feel some sort of vindication for what I did after the judge’s remarks,” she said.

“I wasn’t expecting him to be as positive to me as what he was.

“I thought he would have a bit more of a go at me than he did.

“He saw I didn’t want to do this and I wasn’t doing it because I was making money out of it.

“I was doing it because I felt like I had to.

“When people come to you and they’re dying and they have no other hope and you’ve got something sitting in your fridge that can help them, what are you supposed to do?”

Ms Hallam began using cannabis oil to treat depression and chronic neck, back and arm pain following a motorcycle accident in 1992.

In court last Thursday, Judge Soulio said Ms Hallam had suffered a deterioration of her mental state, weighed as little as 43kg and was considered a suicide risk in the year’s following her  accident.

She then went on to try cannabis oil for herself, before supplying the oil to sick members of the public for free.

“I never really thought they (the police) would arrest me for it,” Ms Hallam said.

“I thought the police would just look the other way.”

Now her case is closed, Ms Hallam said she would take some time to recover from the lengthy trial before looking at her future.

She already has jobs lined up in the medicinal cannabis industry, but also expressed a desire to work with animals and wildlife.

Whatever her future brings, she said she won’t stop advocating for medicinal cannabis until it is legalised.

“It’s about time now we broke the stigma that cannabis is bad and that cannabis users are bad,” Ms Hallam said.

“It doesn’t matter if you like me or not, it doesn’t matter whether you like cannabis or not, it’s coming and you can’t stop it.

“It doesn’t matter how much they fight me, if I disappear, someone else will take my place.”