{"id":5926,"date":"2018-03-15T07:58:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T11:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mml.org\/wp\/inside208\/?p=5926"},"modified":"2018-03-15T07:58:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T11:58:19","slug":"cease-desist-letters-being-delivered-to-illegally-operating-marihuana-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2018\/03\/15\/cease-desist-letters-being-delivered-to-illegally-operating-marihuana-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Cease &amp; Desist Letters being Delivered to Illegally Operating Marihuana Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting today, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/lara\/0,4601,7-154-79571---,00.html\">Bureau of Medical Marihuana Regulation<\/a> (BMMR) and the Michigan State Police (MSP) will be serving cease and desist letters throughout the state of Michigan to open marihuana businesses that did not meet the February 15, 2018 deadline to apply per <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/lara\/0,4601,7-154-79571_83994-454538--,00.html\">Emergency Rule 19<\/a>, as well as those operating without municipal approval.\u00a0BMMR has also communicated this message to law enforcement through MSP. If municipalities have any questions or receive inquiries from businesses they may contact BMMR at <a href=\"mailto:LARA-MedicalMarihuana@michigan.gov\">LARA-MedicalMarihuana@michigan.gov<\/a> or 517-284-8599.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Jennifer Rigterink\u00a0is a legislative associate for the League handling economic development, land use and municipal services issues. \u00a0She can be reached at jrigterink@mml.org or 517-908-0305.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting today, the Bureau of Medical Marihuana Regulation (BMMR) and the Michigan State Police (MSP) will be serving cease and desist letters throughout the state of Michigan to open marihuana businesses that did not meet the February 15, 2018 deadline to apply per Emergency Rule 19, as well as those  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","mml-onemagnify-plugin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cease &amp; 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