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Previously this month, the Court of Appeals, in a split decision, identified that the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act does NOT protect caregivers or patients who remain in possession of wet marijuana that remains in the drying out process, from prosecution. The Courts ruling in the case of People v. Vanessa Mansour determined that since wet marijuana that remained in the drying out process was not usable cannabis, possession of wet cannabis was not protected by the MMMA. The MMMA specifies a lot of the terms of the act. The term usable marijuana is specifically defined in the MMMA. The act defines usable marijuana to mean 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 also roots of the plant. The Court found that because the act chose to use the word "dried" before the remaining components, that indicated that wet, undried cannabis was not a component o...

You might be thinking of starting 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 acquire 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 guidelines no longer allow 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 business where qualifying patients under the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act or the MMMA (M.C.L. 333.26421 et seq.) may come to purchase medical marihuana for medical use. While a provisioning center can be a profitable ...

AG Sessions Gets Rid Of Obama Administration Policy Relating To Prosecution of Federal Cannabis Laws. On Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a policy that guides local U.S. Attorneys to prosecute federal criminal offenses for cannabis law violations, even in States where recreational and medicinal marijuana use has been approved by the voters. The new policy directive is troublesome for a variety of reasons, and should create concern for people that use medical marijuana in Michigan, or to those who distribute it. Criminal Law Consequences. The policy modification could pose major difficulties to the Cannabis industry, which has been gradually expanding over the past 10 years. Up until the policy revision on Tuesday, a growing number of States defied Federal regulations and prohibitions on cannabis use for any reason, and have passed medical cannabis regulations, as we have here in Michigan, or they have granted recreational use of cannabis, as Colorado and California have d...

You might be thinking about starting 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 formerly referred to colloquially as a "dispensary." The current guidelines no longer allow 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 business where qualifying patients under the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act or the MMMA (M.C.L. 333.26421 et seq.) may come to purchase medical marihuana for medical usage. While a provisioning center can be a successful ventur...

Detroit Medical Cannabis Update The previous week has actually been a busy one in the City of Detroit when it involves Medical Marijuana Facilities Licensing Act problems. The City application deadline for currently running facilities was February 15. The Wayne County Circuit Court's Chief Judge, Robert Colombo, Jr. released a judgment regarding the voter initiatives as well as dispensary zoning requirements. Ultimately, the City issued a postponement on applications and approvals for new medical marijuana dispensaries within the City of Detroit. Detroit MMFLA Deadline Comes and Goes: If you were a medical marijuana dispensary owner and also you got on the City's accepted operating list, you were required to submit your application to the State of Michigan Bureau of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs by February 15, 2018. That application also needed to be submitted with the City of Detroit for municipal attestation of operating approval by that date too. If you did not get your ...

Thinking of starting a Medical Marihuana Grow to ensure that you can give cannabis to the medical marihuana market? Are you a Medical Marihuana Act licensed caregiver that intends to take your product commercial on a larger scale? Thanks to the Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act, now you can do so lawfully, so long as you can successfully acquire a license from the State to do so. This might be an amazing chance with many brand-new owners seeing remarkable degrees of earnings as well as success in the market. Nevertheless, if you make this decision, you do need to see to it that you get a Michigan commercial grow license. Failing to do so will certainly result in your venture being, probably, unlawful and also lead to court activity that will certainly cripple your organisation before it begins. However, the Michigan commercial grow license application is a long, complex as well as pricey process. Ask a medical marijuana lawyer, and they will tell you that you need to make sur...

Caregivers and the DoDo Cannabis and extinct birds would seemingly never show up in any type of conversation. Nevertheless, in talking with our cannabis clients, a lot of them are inquiring about the feasibility of the Caregiver model, especially 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 be the extinction event for the caregiver model as lots of have understood it for several years here in Michigan. While Caregivers will certainly continue to be able to grow and sell to their registered patients, and for themselves, if they are also registered qualifying patients, the "gray market" where they were offering their overages, and making a pretty good revenue, is coming to an end. What was the "Caregiver Model?" Under the old "Caregiver Model," a Registered Caregiver might grow up to seventy-two (72) marihuana plant...

The Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation is persevering on their position that all cannabis 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 centers are not mandated to close down, the State Bureau of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs has explained that any center that continues to run after receipt of the cease and desist will most likely not be given a license. Further, the State has set forth recommended Final Rules regarding Medical Marihuana Facilities licensing, which is going to allow or registered qualifying patients to receive home shipments from provisioning centers (with limitation, certainly) as well as will likewise permit online purchasing. So, where does that leave registered caregivers, that were anticipating to be able to stay relevant to their patients till 2021? Traditional The old for registered caregivers was quite straightforward...