333.8152 Enhanced pharmaceutical-grade cannabis card; issuance by department; conditions; surrender of registry identification card.

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Sec. 8152.

(1)The department may issue an enhanced pharmaceutical-grade cannabis registration card to an eligible patient who is 18 years of age or older, who is recommended by a physician to obtain a registration card, and who properly applies for that card. The department may issue an enhanced pharmaceutical-grade cannabis card to an eligible patient who is less than 18 years of age, who is recommended by 2 physicians to obtain a registration card, and who properly applies for that card or if his or her parent or guardian properly applies for that card on his or her behalf. Before issuing a card to an eligible patient under this section, the department shall determine whether the individual has previously been convicted of a felony violation for illegally manufacturing, creating, distributing, possessing, or using a controlled substance or conspiring or attempting to manufacture, create, distribute, possess, or use a controlled substance in this state or elsewhere. If the individual has previously been convicted of a felony violation for illegally manufacturing, creating, distributing, possessing, or using a controlled substance or conspiring or attempting to manufacture, create, distribute, possess, or use a controlled substance in this state or elsewhere, the department shall not issue a registration card to that individual.

(2)If an individual has a registry identification card as defined in section 3 of the Michigan medical marihuana act, 2008 IL 1, MCL 333.26423, the department shall require the individual to surrender that card before issuing the individual an enhanced pharmaceutical-grade cannabis registration card under this section.

History: Add. 2013, Act 268 , Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 2013

Popular Name: Act 368