LANSING, MI (MPRN)-- People in Michigan who use medical marijuana may have to find another place to get their medicine come Thursday.
Monday was the last day for medical marijuana businesses to potentially receive a state license before the October 31st deadline. Businesses that didn’t receive the state’s blessing will be shut down on Thursday.
Linda Smith owns the Card Clinic LLC in Haslett, which helps people get their medical marijuana cards. She says the threat of shut downs has her patients worried about where they will get their medicine.
“There is a tremendous amount of anxiety on the part of the patients because they rely on the provisioning centers,” says Smith.
So far, the state has granted 37 provisioning center licenses from close to 200 such applications.
Andrew Brisbo is the director of the Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation. He says he’s confident patients will get what they need.
“I feel comfortable with the licenses we’ve approved at this point that there is a fully functioning market in the state,” Brisbo says.
People who didn’t receive a state license Monday have an opportunity to be approved at the next Medical Marijuana Licensing Board meeting on November 8.
The state says there are close to 300,000 medical marijuana patients in Michigan.