Australia: Cannabis oil advocate spared conviction for supplying medicinal cannabis

Following up our report of last week we learn that medical cannabis oil advocate Jenny Hallam avoids a conviction Australia ABC news  reports A South Australian cannabis oil distributor has been spared a conviction for providing the drug to terminally ill people, with the judge saying her actions helped rather than harmed the recipients. Key points: Police raided Jenny Hallam’s property in 2017 and found cannabis oil products If convicted she faced seven years in jail, a $35,000 fine, or both Today, the judge said there was no evidence any harm had been caused to recipients Jenny Lee Hallam, 47, pleaded guilty to possessing and manufacturing a controlled drug in February. Her property, north of Adelaide, was raided in January 2017 and police found a number of packaged cannabis oil products in syringes and capsules. Judge Rauf Soulio today released Ms Hallam on a good behaviour bond in Adelaide’s District Court. He said it was clear Ms Hallam had been making the oil at a financial loss and her actions were not commercially motivated. He said there was no evidence any harm had been caused to any recipient of the cannabis oil and that the evidence was “strongly to the…

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