Frequently Asked Questions
Medical Marijuana Facilities
- Can I apply for a state operating license if I have a medical marijuana card?
- Can I hold a CPL license and a medical marijuana state operating license?
- Can a caregiver work in a licensed facility and retain their caregiver status under MMMA?
- Who is eligible to be an employee for a licensed facility?
- What may potentially prevent an applicant from getting approved for a state operating license?
- Can I submit an incomplete prequalification application?
- Can you change the license type, or number of license(s) you are prequalified for without submitting a new application?
- Does MRA allow licensing stacking?
- Does the MMFLA provide any protection for CPAs and financial institutions whose clients are licensed by or pursuing licensure with the state under the MMFLA?
- How do I submit my application?
- How does the application process work?
- How will I be contacted by the MRA?
- Is co-location of facilities allowed?
- Should I submit my full application (Step 1 and 2) together?
- What are the capitalization requirements for each type of license?
- What are the most common types of capitalization used in a CPA Attestation?
- What documentation is required when applying for a medical marijuana state operating license?
- What is a CPA Attestation and what is required to be included?
- Where can I find more information on each type of license?
- Who can apply for a license and is there an age requirement?
- Who is a "managerial employee" of the applicant?
- Who is required to submit an application?
- Am I responsible for any of the costs associated with ordering tags?
- How will the Agency accept fees and taxes?
- I plan on seeking multiple licenses from the MRA, do I have to pay the $6,000 application fee for each license?
- Is the fee for transportation a pre-determined fee set by the state?
- What will the costs be for a state operating license?
- As a processor or a grower, if I hire a caregiver, may I transfer their marijuana into my company?
- Can I sell or transfer unused tags to another facility?
- Can licensed Michigan provisioning centers accept visiting qualifying marijuana patient cards?
- Can plants or other marijuana product be bought from caregivers?
- Does product have to go from a grower to a processor or can a grower sell product directly to a provisioning center?
- How are tags produced for seed-to-seed tracking?
- How is your plant count determined as it affects your growing limited as a Class A, B, or C Grower Licenses?
- How long is my prequalification good?
- If I was prequalified for multiple licenses do I need to obtain all of them before my prequalification expires?
- What are the zoning restrictions stated in the MMFLA and what are the distances licensees are required to be away from certain buildings like schools, churches, etc.?
- What percentage of sales tax are medical facilities required to pay?
- When can I get my facility inspected?
- Where can a secure transporter operate?
- Will my license expire and how often will I have to renew my license?
- Am I required to submit an Annual Financial Statement (AFS) report if my license has been closed or not renewed?
- Can a CPA that provides other accounting services to the licensee prepare the Annual Financial Statement (AFS) report?
- Can a CPA working in a bookkeeping firm prepare the Annual Financial Statement (AFS) report?
- How do I determine my Annual Financial Statement (AFS) reporting period?
- How do I know if my Annual Financial Statement (AFS) Report has been approved?
- How do I submit deficiency documents/responses for my Annual Financial Statement (AFS) Report?
- How should I submit my Annual Financial Statement (AFS) report?
- How should the Annual Financial Statement report be compiled for a licensee who has multiple licenses?
- I am a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) conducting the Agreed-Upon Procedures report. I am unable to follow a procedure as specified. What should I do?
- I am a licensee with multiple licenses that does not track all disbursements by license type, so some of the disbursements made cover more than one license that I hold. How should those disbursements be reported on the P3 Schedule of Disbursements?
- I am a vertically integrated licensee. Transfers of product between my licenses are not recorded as revenue in my general ledger. Should those transfers be reported as revenue on P2 Schedule of Revenue?
- I own multiple licensees that have common ownership. Can I submit one Annual Financial Statement (AFS) report that includes all my licensees that are commonly owned?
- I purchased a licensed entity. Must my Annual Financial Statement (AFS) report include the financial dealings of the previous ownership that occurred during the reporting period?
- I utilize another company to handle a type of service necessary for the operation of my licensed entity. We do not have a written agreement or contract. Do I still need to report this on P8 Schedule of Management, Services, and Other Agreements?
- If I report the financial dealings of the prior ownership of my licensed entity in my Annual Financial Statement (AFS) report, am I responsible for the state of the financial records or the financial dealings of the prior ownership?
- Is the Annual Financial Statement (AFS) report required to cover medical licenses, adult use licenses, or both?
- My workforce is provided through a payroll/staffing company. How should my payroll be reported on the P5 Schedule of Payroll Taxes?
- What if I do not submit my Annual Financial Statement (AFS) report by the deadline?
- What is a Notice of Deficiency?
- What is considered an exception on the Annual Financial Statement (AFS) report?
- What is the Annual Financial Statement (AFS) reporting period?
- What is the Annual Financial Statement (AFS)?
- Who can prepare the Annual Financial Statement (AFS) report?
- Who should I contact if I have questions regarding the Annual Financial Statements?
- Will MRA contact me after my Annual Financial Statement (AFS) report is submitted?
- Are transfer of interest documents still required for a change of ownership?
- Can I transfer a marijuana license from one entity to another?
- Does my ownership for an entity licensed under both MMFLA and MRTMA have to match?
- How do I change my mailing address?
- How do I file an amendment for both Medical and Adult-Use marijuana licenses?
- If a current application is under review by the MRA, can I change the ownership?
- If I change the ownership on my medical prequalification, do I need to update capitalization?
- Is there a limit on how many times an entity can change ownership?
- What is the application fee to file an amendment?
- When filing an amendment should the entity's operating agreement/bylaws be signed?
- Where should I submit my amendment documents?
- Can a person seeking certification for medical marijuana do so in a provisioning center?
- How can I get information from the Agency?
- What impact does the MMFLA have on patients or caregivers operating under the MMMA?
- Where can I find the advisory bulletins regarding the administrative rules?
- Why is marijuana sometimes spelled with an "h" and other times spelled with a "j"?
- Why is testing of marijuana products required?
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