{"id":383,"date":"2017-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baronedefensefirm.lawblogger.net\/blog\/michigan-opens-medical-marijuana-business-to-operators\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T14:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T18:38:06","slug":"michigan-opens-medical-marijuana-business-to-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/michigan-opens-medical-marijuana-business-to-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Opens Medical Marijuana Growing Business to Large Scale Operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan will let large marijuana growers apply for and obtain multiple licenses in a single location. Michigan\u2019s Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs recently published an advisory bulletin that will allow a licensee to apply for multiple, or stacked, class C grow licenses. Each class C license allows a grower to cultivate up to 1,500 marijuana plants in one location.<\/p>\n<p>One person or business can apply for an unlimited number of Class C licenses, which allows mega-marijuana growers to compete in Michigan\u2019s marketplace. The Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs explained that offering stacking of the licenses will allow medical marijuana growers to operate more efficiently, which helps consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Critics opine that the large growers will squeeze the smaller operators out of Michigan\u2019s lucrative medical marijuana industry. 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Each class C license allows a grower to cultivate up to 1,500 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marijuana-laws"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michigan Opens Marijuana Growing Business to Large Scale Operators<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Michigan marijuana lawyer Patrick Barone discusses the potential impact of allowing large scale operators to operate in the Michigan marijuana business.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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