The Halifax woman Sally Campbell is on social assistance and the subject of a Nova Scotia Supreme Court ruling that she must be paid for her medical marijuana by the Community Services Department.

The 61 year old women had been fighting with the court to get her federally approved marijuana covered. She shared that finally justice has been done with her.

She claimed that hers as well as her doctors' integrity and credibility was put into question by the department when they refused to acknowledge that her marijuana is medically necessary. Her ailments include hepatitis C, fibromyalgia, hypothyroidism, liver disease rheumatoid arthritis and disc degeneration.

Justice Gerald Moir ordered the province to pay for it, as he could see no other conclusion than that Campbell's marijuana is essential to her health and quality of life.

Debbie Stultz-Giffin, Chairwoman of Maritimers Unite for Medical Marijuana said, "My gut feeling in reading the decision is that this is prying the lid off Pandora's Box. It's opening up to most people on assistance who require medical marijuana and have a doctor's authority, and have Health Canada's authority, to apply to have their marijuana covered".

She shared that she knows about three other people whose requests have been turned down by the Community Services Department in the past couple of years for their medical marijuana