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 new MMFLA. The same rights, benefits, immunities as well as protections available under the MMMA will still apply to patients and caregivers that are adhering to the policies. Consequently, a patient or caregiver may continue to grow medical cannabis, as long as it is done within the boundaries developed by the MMMA, without any added policies, constraints or guidelines.

The Medical Marijuana Facilities Licensing Act (MMFLA) does not interfere with, change, or customize, in any way, the MMMA. The MMFLA creates the capacity for individuals to acquire licenses to operate organisations in the medical marijuana market. Such companies will certainly enable greater access to registered patients and caregivers to get medical marijuana for themselves and their patients.

Those greater access opportunities for acquiring medical cannabis for patients as well as caregivers will certainly come from the ability to purchase risk-free, tested and also high quality medical marijuana, both leaf, edible as well as in other processed forms, from licensed provisioning centers (what were previously as well as typically called dispensaries). Patients will be permitted to acquire up to 2.5 ounces of usable marijuana from a licensed provisioning center. Primary caregivers will certainly have the ability to help their patients with obtaining as well as utilizing medical cannabis. Nevertheless, under the MMFLA, a registered caregiver that is not able to produce enough usable cannabis for a patient from their own growing will have the ability to acquire medical marijuana for their registered patient at a licensed provisioning center.

The bottom line for caregivers: you will certainly not be impacted by the requirements of the MMFLA and also you may continue to run with the exact same regulations, regulations and also limitations put upon your patients and 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 review your scenario.