The Compassion Club Guide
Our Compassion Club Guide is a collection of documents that you may download and use to help you organize and maintain a successful club in your local community.
The PDF file is a complete set of these files that you may downloand and use to print copies for all your club members and guests.
Documents for organizing a Compassion Club
- Introduction
- What are Compassion Clubs
- Benefits of Sanction
- Incorporation
- Articles of Incorporation
- Club Guidelines and expectations
- Finding a location for your club
- Hosting a club meeting
- Club meeting sign in sheet
- Membership sign up sheet
- Events and Fundraising
- Q&A
- MMM Act
- MDCH Administrative Rules
- Affirmative Defense
- PDF handout for Organizational Meetings Guide
- Club Overview (PowerPoint presentation)
Documents for group discussion at Compassion Clubs
Compassion Club Workbook
Print the following pages from our website to create your initial Workbook. We will continue to update and revise these pages, and add additional pages to provide a complete and easy to understand manual of Michigan's medical marijuana program.
Patient Section
- Medical conditions covered
- Issuing/Revocation of I.D. Cards
- Talking to your physician
- Methods of ingestion
- Minor Patients
- Probationers and medical marijuana
- What qualifies as medical marijuana
- What is a caregiver and what do they do?
- Grow your own or choose a caregiver
Caregiver Section
- What is a caregiver and what do they do?
- How do I become a caregiver?
- Caregiver standards
- What qualifies as medical marijuana
- How do I find patients?
- Special considerations for minors
- Training and certification
Physician Section
Common Section
- Patient/Caregiver Agreement
- Confidentiality
- Protections for patients, caregivers, physicians, and visiting patients
- Affirmative Defense
- MMM Act
- MDCH Administrative Rules