A jury has found the two Whangarei people charged in relation to the Daktory Cannabis Club guilty on drugs related charges.

Last Wednesday Brian Thomas Borland, 61, was found guilty on two charges of cultivating cannabis, one of supplying cannabis and a charge of permitting premises to be used for cultivating cannabis.

Sarah Gwenneth Gillgren, 29, was found guilty of possession of cannabis oil for supply and supplying cannabis oil. The jury returned a majority verdict on the charge of supplying cannabis oil.

Earlier in the trail Gillgren had pleaded guilty to a charge each of cultivation and possession for supply of cannabis.

Three charges were dismissed due to insufficient evidence. Defence lawyers Kelly Ellis, for Borland and Arthur Fairley, for Gillgren, applied to have the charges dismissed due to lack of evidence.

Judge Duncan Harvey discharged Borland on a charge of theft of electricity and possession of cannabis oil for supply and discharged Gillgren on a charge of permitting premises to be used for cultivating cannabis.

Borland had earlier pleaded not guilty to all six charges. Ellis told the court her client saw the case as a political battle and a challenge to the police to prove the charges.

Gillgren, who was the club manager, had lived in a tent at the Port Rd premises since December 24, 2016 until her arrest on January 11 elected to give evidence. She told the court she had suffered from mental illness for much of her life. She admitted to using cannabis since early 2015 because she found it medicinally helpful.

Gillgren, who has no previous convictions, She claimed she did not give or sell cannabis oil to anyone and had no knowledge of where the 33 capsules of cannabis oil found in a suitcase in her tent had come from. In closing Fairley had emphasised no eye witnesses had seen her with the 'oil in hand" and there was no evidence to suggest how the oil had got into the suitcase in her tent.

Crown persecutor Jarred Scott argued finding the capsules cash and club receipts in a suitcase in her tent showed Gillgren was involved in supplying cannabis oil. Scott said the cases were not about reform or legislative changes but the illegal actions of the pair who he described as deliberating thumbing their noses at the law.