Medical Marijuana Patients Increasing in Michigan, and 5 Other Facts

As multiple campaigns to collect signatures necessary to get a measure to legalize the use of recreational marijuana on the 2016 ballot pushes on, the demand for medical marijuana keeps growing.

In 2008, Michigan voters approved making the use of marijuana for medical purposes legal in the state.

Since then many local communities across Michigan have enacted measures that have both lessened the criminalization of the drug, while others have gone in the opposite direction to slow or block the availability of it.

But through all that, the number of patients who have registered to receive marijuana — as well as the number of caregivers licensed to provide — has grown.

As part of the The Michigan Medical Marihuana Act of 2008, the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs is required to submit an annual report of the number of patients and caregivers for each county.

The dates are based...

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