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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 making use of 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 advice on the Michigan Medical Marijuana Program. The MMMA was the very first company founded to help provide a platform for patients and caregivers following the beginning of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Program. Since then, nonetheless, it has actually expanded 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 Cannabis Participants of the community, consisting of caregivers, patients, and legal experts like lawyers, can share their experiences and engage in discussion via the MMMA's online forums. At the same time, the blog sites ...

Wet Cannabis Still Unlawful Per MI COA

Previously this month, the Court of Appeals, in a split decision, established that the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act does NOT protect caregivers or patients that are in possession of wet cannabis that remains in the drying out procedure, from prosecution. The Judiciaries ruling in the case of People v. Vanessa Mansour figured out that because wet marijuana that remained in the drying out process was not usable cannabis, possession of wet marijuana 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 suggest the following: "Usable marihuana" means the dried leaves, flowers, plant resin, or extract of the marihuana plant, but does not consist of the seeds, stalks, and also 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 indicated that wet, undried mariju...

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

Thinking of starting a Medical Marihuana Grow to ensure that you can provide marijuana to the medical marihuana market? Are you a Medical Marihuana Act licensed caregiver that wishes to take your item commercial on a bigger range? Thanks to the Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act, currently you can do so legally, as long as you can successfully acquire a license from the State to do so. This could be a superb opportunity with several new owners seeing remarkable degrees of revenue and success in the market. Nevertheless, if you make this decision, you do need to make certain that you get a Michigan commercial grow license. Failing to do so will result in your venture being, probably, unlawful and also bring about court activity that will cripple your company before it starts. Regrettably, the Michigan commercial grow license application is a long, complex and also expensive process. Ask a medical marijuana attorney, and they will certainly inform you that you need to make sure t...

After September 15, Can I Still be a Caregiver?

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 shut down, and will receive a cease and desist letter at that time. While the centers are not mandated to shut down, the State Bureau of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs has made clear that any facility that continues to run after receipt of the cease and desist will most likely not be given a license. Further, the State has stated suggested Final Rules regarding Medical Marihuana Facilities licensing, which is going to permit or registered qualifying clients to obtain home shipments from provisioning centers (with limitation, obviously) and will certainly also permit online purchasing. So, where does that leave registered caregivers, that were anticipating to be able to continue to be relevant to their clients up until 2021? Traditional Model The old for registered caregivers wa...