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

Thinking about starting a Medical Marihuana Grow to ensure that you can supply cannabis to the medical marihuana market? Are you a Medical Marihuana Act licensed caregiver who wants to take your product commercial on a larger scale? Thanks to the Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act, currently you can do so legally, so long as you can successfully get a license from the State to do so. This could be a wonderful opportunity with many brand-new owners seeing incredible levels of earnings and success in the market. Nonetheless, 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 cause your endeavor being, most likely, illegal and also bring about court activity that will certainly maim your company before it starts. However, the Michigan commercial grow license application is a long, complicated and also costly process. Ask a medical marijuana lawyer, and they will certainly inform you that you need to...

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, however only if you obtain 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 colloquially as a "dispensary." The current regulations no longer permit such companies 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 acquire medical marihuana for medical usage. While a provisioning center can be a profitable v...

What is the MMMA and What You Should Know

The Michigan Medical Marijuana Association, also known as the MMMA, is Michigan's largest advocacy group for the use of medical marijuana. 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 company founded to help provide a platform for patients and caregivers following the start of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Program. Since then, nevertheless, it has grown not only as a community and online forum, however 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 attorneys, can share their experiences and engage in discussion through the MMMA's discussion forums. Meanwhile, the blogs put together a host of various t...

Wet Marijuana Still Illegal Per MI COA

Earlier this month, the Court of Appeals, in a split choice, established that the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act does NOT protect caregivers or patients that remain in possession of wet cannabis that remains in the drying out process, from prosecution. The Courts judgment in the case of People v. Vanessa Mansour identified that because wet cannabis that remained in the drying out procedure was not usable marijuana, possession of wet cannabis was not protected by the MMMA. The MMMA defines a number 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 due to the fact that the act chose to use the word "dried" before the remaining components, that meant that wet, undried marijuana was not a ...