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Am I Prepared To Apply for a Medical Marihuana Facilities Grow License?

Thinking about starting a Medical Marihuana Grow to make sure that you can offer marijuana to the medical marihuana market? Are you a Medical Marihuana Act licensed caregiver that intends to take your item commercial on a larger scale? Thanks to the Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act, now you can do so legally, as long as you can successfully acquire a license from the State to do so. This can be a superb opportunity with several new owners seeing remarkable levels of earnings and success in the market. However, 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 venture being, most likely, prohibited and result in court action that will certainly cripple your company before it begins. Sadly, the Michigan commercial grow license application is a long, complex as well as costly process. Ask a medical marijuana lawyer, and also they will inform you that you need to ensure that you ar...

What is the MMMA and What You Must Know

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, information, and suggestions 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, however, it has actually grown not just as a community and forum, however a legal resource, info database, news outlet, and defender of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act. Michigan's Online Community and Library For Medical Marijuana Participants of the community, including caregivers, patients, and legal experts like attorneys, can share their experiences and participate in discussion with the MMMA's forums. On the other hand, the blogs assemble a host of v...

10 Things You Need To Know Before Opening A Marihuana Provisioning Center

You may be thinking about 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, but only if you get municipal approval and a State issued operations license. "Provisioning Center" is the legally permissible term under Michigan's Bureau of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Bureau of Medical Marihuana Regulation, for what was previously referred to informally as a "dispensary." The current guidelines 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 generally a company where qualifying patients under the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act or the MMMA (M.C.L. 333.26421 et seq.) can come to purchase medical marihuana for medical use. While a provisioning center can be a rewarding endeavor, t...

After September 15, Can I Still be a Caregiver?

The Bureau of Medical marijuana Regulation is persevering on their position that all marijuana centers that are not licensed by the State under the Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act, will have to shut down, and will get 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 made clear that any center that continues to run after receipt of the cease and desist will very likely not be granted a license. Additionally, the State has stated recommended Final Rules pertaining to Medical Marihuana Facilities licensing, which is going to permit or registered qualifying patients to get house shipments from provisioning centers (with restriction, naturally) as well as will additionally permit online purchasing. So, where does that leave registered caregivers, who were anticipating to be able to stay relevant to their clients up until 2021? Traditional The old model for registered caregivers wa...

Wet Marijuana Still Prohibited Per MI COA

Earlier this month, the Court of Appeals, in a split choice, determined that the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act does NOT protect caregivers or patients that are in possession of wet marijuana that remains in the drying out process, from prosecution. The Judiciaries ruling in the case of People v. Vanessa Mansour established that since wet cannabis that remained in the drying out process was not usable cannabis, possession of wet cannabis was not protected by the MMMA. The MMMA specifies most of the terms of the act. The term usable marijuana is specifically defined in the MMMA. The act defines usable marijuana to suggest the following: "Usable marihuana" means the dried leaves, flowers, plant resin, or extract of the marihuana plant, however does not include the seeds, stalks, and roots of the plant. The Court found that since the act chose to use the word "dried" before the remaining components, that meant that wet, undried marijuana was not a part of what the prot...

October 31, 2018 Deadline for Caregivers and The Changing Marihuana Dynamic in Michigan

Caregivers and the DoDo Marijuana and extinct birds would seemingly never ever turn up in any kind of discussion. Nonetheless, in talking with our marijuana clients, a lot of them are inquiring about the practicality of the Caregiver model, particularly as it was pushed for many years. What many in the market have referred to as the "Caregiver Model" is going the way of the Do-Do bird on October 31, 2018. Halloween this year will certainly be the extinction event for the caregiver model as numerous have actually understood it for years here in Michigan. While Caregivers will certainly continue to have the ability to grow and offer to their registered patients, and for themselves, if they are likewise registered qualifying patients, the "gray market" where they were selling their excess, and making a fairly good earnings, is coming to an end. What was the "Caregiver Model?" Under the old "Caregiver Model," a Registered Caregiver might grow up to s...

What is the MMMA and What You Ought to Know

The Michigan Medical Marijuana Association, also known as the MMMA, is Michigan's biggest advocacy group for using medical marijuana. Lead by Michael Komorn, President and CEO, it initially started as an online community for caregivers and patients to share their experiences, information, and suggestions on the Michigan Medical Marijuana Program. The MMMA was the very 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 actually grown not just 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 Marijuana Participants 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 blogs assemb...