Medical Marijuana Dispensary Requests Ok To Set Up Office In Vicksburg

[bobandtorey]

VICKSBURG, MI – Vicksburg officials say they will research a paralegal office for medical marijuana dispensing before deciding whether to approve it for the village.

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Susan Bond, a paralegal currently based in the Grand Rapids area, has asked the Vicksburg Village Council for permission to set up the medical marijuana dispensary in which caregivers and growers could come in "with legal questions and marijuana overages."

Bond, who has met with Village Manager Ken Schippers and Police Chief Eric West, said the office would guide them and explain lab testing, would have a display cabinet with various types of lab-tested medical marijuana and "what the strain can do for the patient."

Once the patient decides on the strain, she said, the office links them with a caregiver/grower who can add them as a patient.

"I work with several communities," Bond told the Vicksburg council Monday. "Having a patient look for a grower not knowing what they need or like is not working. Our process works wonderfully."

The office, she said, would be private, not open to the general public and will follow all state laws including the medical marijuana dispensing regulations.

"There is a stigma about medical marijuana," she said. "We do not carry medibles (food), concentrates or clones. We do not grow. Our whole effort revolves around good communication within the medical marijuana community and the local government."

Bond said that currently growers and caregivers from the Kalamazoo area come to her office in Grand Rapids but have advocated for having an office in the Vicksburg-Schoolcraft area.

The office also does "attorney referrals, doctor referrals, a pre-retainer sticker program and grow checks to make sure they are doing everything legally."

"We want to set up a small office here, get it running, and if there are any problems we will close it up," Bond told the council.

Village President Bill Adams and Schippers said that the village was not ready to make a decision until Schippers was able to research Bond's other offices, including the main one in the Grand Rapids area, the Provision Center.

 

http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2015/08/medical_marijuana_dispensary_r.html

[trichcycler]

"....will follow all state laws including the medical marijuana dispensing regulations."

 

she will accomplish this when we have no medical marijuana dispensing regulations on the books?

she will sell buds to people who are not her patients? caregivers will sell their buds to her while she is not the cg's patient?

 

which initiative might she support...?

[bobandtorey]

Sorry

 

 

She will accomplish this when we have no medical marijuana dispensing regulations on the books? Are you sure of that ?

 

Didn't you know that a lot of people do think if they get the OK from their City to open a shop our doing just that and are opening up daily 

Some shops have been opened since 2009 and have never been raided because where is a sick person is suppose to get it if they come here to visit they can't wait  3 months to grow their own 

 

Or a caregiver to fine they may only be here a few days

[trichcycler]

no need to apologise.
 
am I sure of what? the questions I asked?  yep, I am sure than I am unsure of the answers, hence the question marks.

 

you could kindly direct me to the parts of the Act that mention "dispensing regulations", " selling overages to a dispensary", and " selling to people who are not one of your five patients"  as an option to anything in the medical community besides fines and jail time ?   

 

That would be so cool though, like a free for all man!  I'd tell everyone I knew to grow weed and sell it to whoever will buy it, for as much money as they can make!!   A person could make a really good living just selling pounds to the local dispensary, and they would get rich selling to passerby's.   Caregivers could put sign at their driveway so people on the go could stop in for grams at a time. C'mon, I don't think that's what MI voted for, do you ?
 
 
"have never been raided because where is a sick person is suppose to get it if they come here to visit they can't wait 3 months to grow their own Or a caregiver to fine they may only be here a few days"

 

Do you believe that's the reason a city would give their permissions to operate a dispensary?

[Restorium2]

you could kindly direct me to the parts of the Act that mention "dispensing regulations", 

 

It just struck me that these cities are not expanding on the Medical Marijuana Act at all. What they really are doing is exempting certain individuals from the law against marijuana sales. I wonder why anyone thought they had that power? That IS a huge power to wield. 

[+Malamute]

Dispensaries ARE the Black Market Drug Dealers they always complain about....

 

Not that I particularly care besides the fact they trying to hide under the patients umbrella and cause problems for caregivers in their communities by claiming they themselves(dispensaries) are caregivers.

[t-pain]

What they really are doing is exempting certain individuals from the law against marijuana sales. I wonder why anyone thought they had that power? That IS a huge power to wield.

$$$$ talks

 

but also the supreme court ruled dispensary was a nuisance right?

are there state laws against nuisances?

do cities have the ability to regulate nuisances? yes.

so the city can license a nuisance. presto-change-o no more nuisance.

 

the activities within are still illegal, but now the business itself is licensed. or something. no one cares except the prohibitionists.

[trichcycler]

I care tpain, and I'm not a prohibitionist. something is fishy when some  of us are allowed to sell to a thousand people under protection from a law whle others are not afforded that protection.

I couldn't maintain more than five anyways but the stinky principal of it reeks of criminal enterprise up top. Only a few of them open today have represented well while the remainder painted our medical movement with a black eye, caused several bad court decisions, and generally may not have helped registrants as much as we want to believe. I want them allowed of course, and have no answers to how, but the smack we've felt from them is small compared to the one coming you'll see.

 

might not be the only illegal business licensed by the cities? 

[bobandtorey]

Thanks

 

   the smack we've felt from them is small compared to the one coming you'll see..= It's coming i agree but who,when,and where ?

[bobandtorey]

no need to apologise.

 

am I sure of what? the questions I asked?  yep, I am sure than I am unsure of the answers, hence the question marks.

 

you could kindly direct me to the parts of the Act that mention "dispensing regulations", " selling overages to a dispensary", and " selling to people who are not one of your five patients"  as an option to anything in the medical community besides fines and jail time ?   

 

That would be so cool though, like a free for all man!  I'd tell everyone I knew to grow weed and sell it to whoever will buy it, for as much money as they can make!!   A person could make a really good living just selling pounds to the local dispensary, and they would get rich selling to passerby's.   Caregivers could put sign at their driveway so people on the go could stop in for grams at a time. C'mon, I don't think that's what MI voted for, do you ?

 

 

"have never been raided because where is a sick person is suppose to get it if they come here to visit they can't wait 3 months to grow their own Or a caregiver to fine they may only be here a few days"

 

Do you believe that's the reason a city would give their permissions to operate a dispensary?

Thanks again

 

Do you believe that's the reason a city would give their permissions to operate a dispensary? No     Imo it's the $$$$ the city needs and i think that most people will do anything to get Money 

 

 up until they reach an age in life that tells them Money is not everything without your Health

[trichcycler]

Thanks again

 

 

 up until they reach an age in life that tells them Money is not everything without your Health

smart one there !

[bobandtorey]

Thanks for replying to my post