MEDICAL MARIHUANA FACILITIES LICENSING ACT
Act 281 of 2016
333.27101 Short title.
Sec. 101.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the "medical marihuana facilities licensing act".
History: 2016, Act 281, Eff. Dec. 20, 2016
Compiler's Notes:
Enacting section 2 of Act 281 of 2016 provides:
"Enacting section 2. The legislature finds that the necessity for access to safe sources of marihuana for medical use and the immediate need for growers, processors, secure transporters, provisioning centers, and safety compliance facilities to operate under clear requirements establish the need to promulgate emergency rules to preserve the public health, safety, or welfare."
For transfer of powers and duties of the medical marihuana licensing board, marihuana advisory panel, and department of licensing and regulatory affairs, including its bureau of marijuana regulation, to the marijuana regulatory agency, and abolishment of the medical marihuana licensing board, marihuana advisory panel, and bureau of marijuana regulation, see ERO No. 2019-2, compiled at MCL 333.27001.
For the renaming of the marijuana regulatory agency to the cannabis regulatory agency, see E.R.O. No. 2022-1, compiled at MCL 333.27002.
Notes of Decisions
United States v. Daniel Trevino, 7 F.4th 414 (6th Cir. 2021).
“In 2016, Michigan enacted the Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act, see Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.27101 et seq., which established a licensing scheme to allow qualified entities to facilitate transactions between patients and caregivers.”
In re Basrah Custom Design, Inc., 600 B.R. 368 (Bankr. E.D. Mich. 2019).
· cites it 2× “27904, and the "Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act" (effective December 20, 2016 and later amended effective January 26, 2018, January 1, 2019, March 28, 2019, and April 16, 2019), Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. §§ 333.27101 through 333.”
Christie Deruiter v. Twp. of Byron, 926 N.W.2d 268 (Mich. Ct. App. 2018).
“MCL 333.27205. Obviously, had the Legislature intended to authorize municipalities to adopt zoning ordinances restricting the activities of registered medical marijuana caregivers, it could have done so in the MMMA.”
Charter Twp. of York v. Donald Miller, 915 N.W.2d 373 (Mich. Ct. App. 2018).
“By comparison, the Legislature recently enacted the Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act, MCL 333.27101 et seq ., and specifically granted municipalities authority to adopt local ordinances including zoning regulations that restrict the location, number, and type of…”
People of Michigan v. Adam Travis Tasselmyer (Mich. Ct. App. 2021).
· cites it 2× “1 In our order, we limited the issue on appeal to whether defendant was immune from prosecution under the Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act (the MMFLA), MCL 333.27101 et seq. For the reasons discussed in this opinion, we vacate the order denying defendant’s motion to…”
Blue Water Cannabis Co. LLC v. City of Westland (Mich. Ct. App. 2023).
· cites it 2× “, to exercise its police, regulatory, and licensing powers over both medical-use and adult-recreational-use businesses selling marijuana to the extent permissible under state law, specifically the Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act, MCL 333.27101 et seq., and the…”
Fluresh, LLC v. Grand Rapids, City of (W.D. Mich. 2025).
· cites it 2× “MMFLA In 2016, the Michigan legislature enacted the Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act (MMFLA), Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.27101 et seq., in order to “license and regulate medical marihuana growers, processors, provisioning centers, secure transporters, and safety compliance…”
Cannarbor Inc v. Dep't of Treasury (Mich. Ct. App. 2025).
· cites it 2× “, which allows “marihuana establishments” to deduct from net income “all the ordinary and necessary expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year in carrying out a trade or business,” does not apply to medical marijuana provisioning centers licensed under the Medical…”
Iip-Mi 4 LLC & Livwell Michigan LLC v. City of Warren (Mich. Ct. App. 2026).
· cites it 2× “(MRTMA) and the Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act, MCL 333.27101 et seq. (MMFLA).1 On or about April 29, 2023, LivWell filed a claim for a Qualified Agricultural Exemption (QAE) pursuant to MCL 211.”
Charter Twp. of York v. Donald Miller (Mich. Ct. App. 2018).
“By comparison, the Legislature recently enacted the medical marijuana facilities licensing act, MCL 333.27101 et seq., and specifically granted municipalities authority to adopt local ordinances including zoning regulations that restrict the location, number, and type of…”
Christie Deruiter v. Twp. of Byron (Mich. Ct. App. 2018).
“By comparison, the Legislature recently enacted the medical marijuana facilities licensing act, MCL 333.27101 et seq., and specifically granted municipalities authority to adopt local ordinances including zoning regulations that restrict the location, number, and type of…”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.