MMMA Caregivers and the MMFLA: What, If Anything, Has Changed?

Any individual that is a registered qualifying patient or registered caregiver with the State of Michigan running under the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act (MMMA) will not be influenced by the brand-new MMFLA. The exact same rights, advantages, immunities and also protections available under the MMMA will certainly still apply to patients and also caregivers who are following the rules. Therefore, a patient or caregiver might continue to grow medical marijuana, as long as it is done within the boundaries developed by the MMMA, without any additional guidelines, limitations or policies.

The Medical Marijuana Facilities Licensing Act (MMFLA) does not conflict with, modification, or customize, at all, the MMMA. The MMFLA creates the capacity for individuals to acquire licenses to operate businesses in the medical cannabis industry. Such businesses will certainly permit greater accessibility to registered patients and also caregivers to obtain medical marijuana on their own and their patients.

Those greater access possibilities for getting medical cannabis for patients and also caregivers will originate from the ability to purchase safe, examined and also quality medical cannabis, both leaf, edible as well as in various other processed kinds, from licensed provisioning centers (what were formerly and also commonly called dispensaries). Patients will certainly be allowed to buy up to 2.5 ounces of usable marijuana from a licensed provisioning center. Primary caregivers will be able to assist their patients with getting and also using medical cannabis. However, under the MMFLA, a registered caregiver who is not able to generate enough usable cannabis for a patient from their very own farming will certainly have the ability to acquire medical marijuana for their registered patient at a licensed provisioning center.

The bottom line for caregivers: you will not be affected by the requirements of the MMFLA and also you might continue to operate with the same regulations, guidelines and also restrictions put upon your patients as well as you as set forth in the MMMA. Should you have any type of questions, please give us a call so we can set up a consultation as well as review your scenario.