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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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