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You may be thinking of opening a marihuana provisioning center in Michigan. Now, after the passage of the Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act or the MMFLA (M.C.L. 333.27401 et seq.) that is possible, however only if you get municipal approval and a State issued operations license. "Provisioning Center" is the legally acceptable term under Michigan's Bureau of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Bureau of Medical Marihuana Regulation, for what was previously referred to colloquially as a "dispensary." The existing regulations no longer permit such businesses to be referred to legally as "dispensaries" and the State requires that they be referred to as marihuana provisioning centers. A provisioning center is essentially a organisation where qualifying patients under the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act or the MMMA (M.C.L. 333.26421 et seq.) may come to buy medical marihuana for medical use. While a provisioning center can be a successful ven...

Caregivers and the DoDo Cannabis and extinct birds would seemingly never come up in any discussion. Nonetheless, in talking to our marijuana clients, much of them are inquiring about the practicality of the Caregiver model, especially as it was promoted many years. What many in the sector have actually described as the "Caregiver Model" is going the way of the Do-Do bird on October 31, 2018. Halloween this year will be the extinction event for the caregiver model as several have understood it for years here in Michigan. While Caregivers will continue to be able to grow and market to their registered patients, and for themselves, if they are additionally registered qualifying patients, the "gray market" where they were selling their excess, and making a pretty good profit, is coming to an end. What was the "Caregiver Model?" Under the old "Caregiver Model," a Registered Caregiver could grow up to seventy-two (72) marihuana plants, if they had 5 re...

Earlier this month, the Court of Appeals, in a split choice, figured out that the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act does NOT protect caregivers or patients who are in possession of wet cannabis that is in the drying out process, from prosecution. The Judiciaries judgment in the case of People v. Vanessa Mansour determined that because wet cannabis that remained in the drying process was not usable marijuana, possession of wet marijuana was not protected by the MMMA. The MMMA defines much of the terms of the act. The term usable marijuana is specifically defined in the MMMA. The act defines usable marijuana to indicate the following: "Usable marihuana" means the dried leaves, flowers, plant resin, or extract of the marihuana plant, but does not include the seeds, stalks, as well as roots of the plant. The Court found that since the act chose to use the word "dried" before the remaining components, that implied that wet, undried marijuana was not a component of what the ...

The Michigan Medical Marijuana Association, also known as the MMMA, is Michigan's largest advocacy group for using medical cannabis. Lead by Michael Komorn, President and CEO, it initially started as an online community for caregivers and patients to share their experiences, details, and recommendations on the Michigan Medical Marijuana Program. The MMMA was the very first company established to help provide a platform for patients and caregivers following the start of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Program. Since then, nevertheless, it has actually expanded not only as a community and forum, but a legal resource, information database, news outlet, and defender of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act. Michigan's Online Community and Library For Medical Cannabis Members of the community, including caregivers, patients, and legal experts like lawyers, can share their experiences and engage in conversation with the MMMA's discussion forums. At the same time, the blog sites put t...

The Michigan Medical Marijuana Association, also known as the MMMA, is Michigan's biggest advocacy group for making use of medical cannabis. Lead by Michael Komorn, President and CEO, it initially began as an online community for caregivers and patients to share their experiences, info, and advice on the Michigan Medical Marijuana Program. The MMMA was the first organization started to help provide a platform for patients and caregivers following the beginning of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Program. Since then, however, it has grown not just as a community and forum, but a legal resource, info database, news outlet, and defender of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act. Michigan's Online Community and Library For Medical Cannabis Members of the community, including caregivers, patients, and legal experts like attorneys, can share their experiences and engage in conversation with the MMMA's online forums. At the same time, the blogs assemble a host of various stories and per...

Thinking of starting a Medical Marihuana Grow to make sure that you can offer cannabis to the medical marihuana market? Are you a Medical Marihuana Act licensed caregiver that wishes to take your product commercial on a bigger scale? Thanks to the Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act, currently you can do so lawfully, so long as you can successfully get a license from the State to do so. This can be a fantastic possibility with several brand-new owners seeing incredible levels of profit and also success in the market. Nevertheless, if you make this choice, you do need to make certain that you obtain a Michigan commercial grow license. Failing to do so will certainly lead to your endeavor being, probably, unlawful and also lead to court activity that will maim your business before it starts. Sadly, the Michigan commercial grow license application is a long, complicated as well as pricey process. Ask a medical marijuana lawyer, and they will certainly tell you that you need to see...

The Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation is standing firm on their position that all cannabis facilities that are not licensed by the State under the Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act, will need to close down, and will receive a cease and desist letter at that time. While the facilities are not mandated to shut down, the State Bureau of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs has explained that any facility that continues to operate after receipt of the cease and desist will very likely not be given a license. Additionally, the State has stated suggested Final Rules pertaining to Medical Marihuana Facilities licensing, which is going to permit or registered qualifying patients to obtain home deliveries from provisioning centers (with limitation, certainly) and will certainly also allow online buying. So, where does that leave registered caregivers, that were expecting to be able to stay relevant to their patients till 2021? Traditional The old model for registered caregivers was pr...