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

Any individual who is a registered qualifying patient or registered caregiver with the State of Michigan running under the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act (MMMA) will certainly not be impacted by the brand-new MMFLA. The exact same rights, advantages, immunities and also protections available under the MMMA will still apply to patients and caregivers that are adhering to 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 policies, constraints or guidelines.

The Medical Marijuana Facilities Licensing Act (MMFLA) does not interfere with, change, or change, at all, the MMMA. The MMFLA creates the capacity for persons to obtain licenses to operate companies in the medical cannabis sector. Such companies will certainly allow for greater accessibility to registered patients as well as caregivers to obtain medical marijuana for themselves and also their patients.

Those greater access chances for acquiring medical marijuana for patients as well as caregivers will come from the capacity to buy secure, tested and top quality medical marijuana, both leaf, edible and also in various other processed types, from licensed provisioning centers (what were previously and also generally referred to as dispensaries). Patients will be enabled to buy up to 2.5 ounces of usable cannabis from a licensed provisioning center. Primary caregivers will certainly be able to assist their patients with obtaining and also making use of medical cannabis. Nevertheless, under the MMFLA, a registered caregiver who is unable to produce adequate usable cannabis for a patient from their own growing will have the ability to buy medical cannabis for their registered patient at a licensed provisioning center.

The bottom line for caregivers: you will certainly not be affected by the requirements of the MMFLA and also you might continue to run with the exact same rules, laws and also restrictions put upon your patients as well as you as stated 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 discuss your scenario.