Senate Bill Passes To Make Medical Marijuana Available For Military Veterans

Senate Bill Passes To Make Medical Marijuana Available For Military Veterans

The Senate passed the bill by a vote of 86 to 5 for U.S. military veterans who would be permitted to be given recommendations for medical marijuana from government doctors under new legislation.

This provision is part of a legislation to fund parts of the federal government including the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) .

This would also protect veterans from losing their government benefits as a result of cannabis use that is legal under state law.

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Canceled Meeting Means More Delays for Medical Marijuana Licenses in Michigan

Canceled Meeting Means More Delays for Medical Marijuana Licenses in Michigan

LANSING — The Michigan Medical Marijuana Licensing Board was supposed to give out the first licenses to cannabis businesses next week.

But those businesses will have to wait another month before they can open their doors after Monday’s meeting was cancelled on Friday.

The cancellation came after one board member said they couldn’t make the meeting and another said they would have a difficult time making it there in time. David Harns, spokesman for the state Department of Licensing and Regulation, wouldn’t reveal which members weren’t able to attend.

The board was set to award licenses to four applicants that represent four large marijuana growing operations, a secure transport company, a dispensary in Ann Arbor and a processor. They also were supposed to consider pre-qualifying 10 applicants for a variety of medical marijuana businesses.

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Detroit city officials consider a new proposal to cap medical marijuana facilities

Detroit city officials consider a new proposal to cap medical marijuana facilities

June 12, 2018
The Detroit News

Detroit — City officials are considering a new proposal that would cap the number of medical marijuana facilities operating in the city to 75 and lay out regulations for where they can locate.

The ordinance, which also includes provisions for how large the operations can be, is the latest by Detroit to combat a proliferation of so-called pot shops in the city in recent years.

Detroit City Councilman James Tate submitted the zoning ordinance changes last month to the City Planning Commission for a review and recommendation. The ordinance will then be introduced for council’s consideration.

The legislation would establish rules for facilities in Detroit that grow, test, process, transport and dispense medical marijuana to patients with state-approved medical marijuana cards.

It also would encourage medical marijuana operators to provide community benefits in their licensing operations, city officials said.

“The goal has always been to ensure that we have an industry that is respectful of the neighborhoods, the communities it is located in, but also considerate to individuals seeking safe access to alternative medication,” Tate said in a statement. “This ordinance balances those two needs with the preservation of neighborhoods being the top priority.”

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Published 2:19 a.m. ET June 12, 2018

BMMR Authorized Third Party Integrators with METRC

BMMR Authorized Third Party Integrators with METRC

Licensees should make sure any integrator they contract with can provide the METRC functionality they need:-

  • Growers will need Plants, Packages, Harvest, Rooms, Strains, and Items
  • Processors will need Packages, Strains, and Items, and should have Rooms
  • Provisioning Centers will need Packages, Sales, Strains, and Items, and should have Rooms
  • Safety Compliance Facilities will need Packages, and should have Rooms, Strains, and Items
  • Secure Transporters have no inventory and don’t don’t use any of the functionalities listed above

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BMMR Authorized Third Party Integrators with METRC

Regulators recommend Medicinal Marijuana use for 10 new conditions

A review panel on Friday 5-4-18 recommended adding 10 new conditions to the list of ailments for approval for medical marijuana use. The recommended additions are…

  • Obsessive compulsive disorder
  • Arthritis
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Spinal cord injury
  • Inflammatory bowel disease
  • Ulcerative colitis
  • Parkinson’s
  • Tourette Syndrome
  • Autism
  • Chronic pain

A Michigan regulator will consider an advisory board’s recommendation to add autism and other conditions to a list of allowable medical conditions for the use of marijuana.

Shelly Edgerton who is The Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs Director  has until July 10, 2018 to make a decision on nine of the recommendations and until Aug. 6 to make a decision on another.

A previous director in 2015 rejected a recommendation to allow marijuana use for autism.

Marijuana is allowed to relieve the side effects of cancer and other conditions. Only post-traumatic stress disorder has been added since 2008.