A roundtable to examine the potential to establish industrial hemp and medicinal cannabis industries in South Australia will be held at the end of the month.

It comes only months after the Federal Government changed the law to allow the controlled cultivation of cannabis for medicinal and scientific purposes, and just weeks after an Adelaide woman who was supplying cannabis oil products to terminally ill people had her property raided.

Unlike in some other states, it is illegal to grow hemp plants in South Australia and nationally medicinal cannabis can only be grown with a licence.

South Australia's Manufacturing Minister Kyam Maher said the meeting was "about creating an industry".

He said industry groups and companies looking to make things like building products, clothing, textiles and skin care products had been invited.

"We want to look at what barriers we can remove to the industry and then it will really be up to the market forces to decide whether this crop is a viable and sustainable crop in South Australia," Mr Maher said.

Hillier resident Jenny Hallam, who had her house raided, and people using medicinal cannabis have not been invited to the roundtable.

Mr Maher said the roundtable was solely to look at the industries potential economic benefits and not prescribing and supplying medicinal cannabis.

"It is now up to medical specialists to prescribe medicinal cannabis and we have a discussion paper out at the moment in terms of pathways for prescribing medicinal cannabis," he said.

"But we will, what most people expect, be taking the best possible expert medical and scientific advice on those pathways."

SA lagging behind rest of country

Industrial Hemp Association of South Australia president Teresa McDowell said she was optimistic the Government would move forward with regulatory reforms.

In November last year the Greens introduced legislation to legalise growing industrial hemp in the state.

"It's a wonderful opportunity to have further discussions and work with the department of state growth also," she said.

"Currently we're lagging behind the rest of the country.

"Northern Territory have had some trials, but both in Northern Territory and South Australia it's illegal to cultivate industrial hemp so we need that legislation changed."

Ms McDowell believed the economic potential was extremely high.

"If you look at places like Canada, their hemp seed and oil alone export market last year, to September, was $114 million," she said.

"There are various different industries that industrial hemp can moved towards, there are composite materials, automobile composites and bio fuels."