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Michigan’s Medical Marijuana Program Kicks Off Slowly

LANSING — On a frigid, snowy December morning nearly 10 years after medical marijuana became legal in Michigan, the fully regulated business officially started.

The day started with a whimper, rather than the bang state regulators had prepared for. Two hours after the doors opened at the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, only two people had shown up to turn in their applications for medical marijuana licenses.

Only two Michigan State Police officers stood on guard outside, waiting along the stanchions and red velvet ropes that formed a line for a crush of people that didn’t show up.

Online was a different story, 91 people logged into the system between 12:01 a.m. when it went live to 4 p.m. Friday, 68 of those people submitted at least some of the documents required to apply for a medical marijuana license and five of those people turned in completed applications and paid the $6,000 fee. But only nine people showed up at LARA offices in Lansing to turn in applications.

Dan Madigan, an Ann Arbor resident, was the first to show up, hoping to make the transition from a caregiver who has been supplying clients — mostly veterans with ailments like post traumatic stress disorder and cancer — with marijuana, to a Class A grower in Washtenaw County, who can produce up to 500 medical marijuana plants. [Read more at Detroit Free Press]

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