October 31, 2018 Deadline for Caregivers and The Changing Marihuana Dynamic in Michigan
Caregivers and the DoDo Cannabis and extinct birds would seemingly never show up in any kind of conversation. Nonetheless, in consulting with our cannabis clients, many of them are asking about the stability of the Caregiver model, specifically as it was promoted several years. What several in the market have actually described as the "Caregiver Model" is going the way of the Do-Do bird on October 31, 2018. Halloween this year will certainly be the extinction event for the caregiver model as lots of have known it for many years here in Michigan. While Caregivers will certainly continue to be able to grow and sell to their registered patients, and for themselves, if they are additionally registered qualifying patients, the "gray market" where they were selling their excess, and making a pretty good profit, is coming to an end. What was the "Caregiver Model?" Under the old "Caregiver Model," a Registered Caregiver can grow up to seventy-two (72) ma...