Michigan Medical Marijuana

                  
 
 

About Michigan Medical Marijuana

On November 4th 2008 Michigan voters elected to instate the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act. On April 4th 2009 the state of Michigan started accepting applications from medical marijuana patients. The state can NOT refute a state licensed doctors recommendation.

A doctors signature is required on the recommendation. Many people are finding it difficult to get their family doctor to sign the recommendation form.

If you are having troubles getting your doctor to sign the application, there are other doctors that are pro-medical marijuana. These doctors will sign the application if you have a valid condition as described in the Michigan Medical Marijuana Law.

You will likely have to supply them with proof of your existing condition. This means you will either have to have your doctor fax your medical records to a pro-marijuana doctor or physically get them from your doctor and send them or bring them to the new doctor.

To get your records all you have to do is ask your doctor. They legally have to supply them if requested or approved by a patients signed request. If you want to be discrete the best thing to do is get the paperwork yourself and give it to your new doctor or "medical marijuana specialist". It generally costs around $150 - $200 to visit a "medical marijuana specialist" in Michigan.

Once you complete the application you can simply mail it to the address provided on the form. It has been taking around 30 days or more after the state cashes the check before approved applicants get their Michigan Medical Marijuana Patient ID card. The state application fee is $100 and sometimes $25 if you are low income or receive social security.

*UPDATE*

There are rumors that family doctors and other specialists are telling their patients to leave their office when asked to sign a medical marijuana recommendation.

Some people claim to have been told to never come back. If this is true it makes it even riskier to ask your normal doctor about signing a
MI Medical Application. Maybe the best thing to do is just go to a clinic that specializes in medical marijuana in the first place.
You already know these doctors won't freak out. You won't have to go find another doctor and you won't have to go without your pharmaceutical medicine until you do.

There have also been threats to our new medical marijuana law. Certain senators have been creating bills that attempt to gut the marijuana law by making it inoperable.

#1. By making it so Michigan medical marijuana card holders have to get their marijuana from a pharmacy.
#2. By limiting the number of legal growers to only 10 statewide.

There are extremely high federal mandatory minimum sentences for anybody who possesses more than 100 plants. Limiting the number of growers to 10 would mean the entire state of Michigan won't have more than 1000 legal plants growing at one time. that's nowhere near enough plants to sustain the states demand.

Since pharmacies can't sell marijuana, because it's federally illegal for them to do so, the patients simply won't get any marijuana at all.

Get active people. We need to vote in new political leaders who are pro cannabis and aren't against the will of the people. 63% of the states voters said yes to medical marijuana but our leaders are trying to undermine our law. We need new leaders.