Cleveraliashere
Member
Good afternoon everyone.
Been lurking on the forums for some time trying to find the answers to some questions that have been clattering around in my brain since I decided I wanted to become a caregiver.
Let me just say, I have no dreams of becoming a distributor to the masses and growing bales of weed to make forts out of in the backyard, just enough for the wife and myself.
I won't go into the description of our problems, suffice it to say, a lot of pills every day for decades have arguably started causing more damage than they were intended to correct for and assist us with.
My questions concern the business aspects. I want to err well on the conservative side so that by some horrible freak of random bad luck, I don't become a test case, because I forgot to ask some simple question.
I have seen the forms for applying with the State of Michigan. No problem there, so easy a stoner could fill them out, including many threads about them and linking to the State website page with the pages. Great.
What I haven't found is the process, used by those of you that are not growing in your homes, to "get legal" with your local city/township/county authorities.
I assume you filed a D.B.A. and whatever business paperwork to establish the business. Fine, easy to do. But, where do you go and what did you do next to get approval from your municipality? Or did you do nothing? Did you have to go to a city council meeting and plead your case? (perhaps extravagant but you can see where I am going I hope). I have to assume someone out there is doing something along this line with all the various authorities putting moratoriums on caregiver/dispensary businesses in so many locations throughout the state.
What did you tell the authorities your business was going to be providing? Did you have an attorney create some clever wording based on the MMJ law wording/phrasing?
Now, at this time I do not intend on taking on other patients, at least until the laws are more solidified and some of these test cases get processed. But, in the eventuality that I should decide to in the future, does sales tax apply to any/all of the products that could potentially be provided to our patients?
There are many legal aspects that an enterprising sheriff/police officer/prosecuting attorney could use to shut you down if they really wanted to do so. Hell, not paying sales tax invites you to all kinds of potential issues with the state authorities which can leap frog to the IRS if they really want to punish you for no other reason than they found your application or DBA on file as a Caregiver in their jurisdiction. I realize that is pessimistic and alarmist, and I don't honestly see this happening, but if a little homework and asking questions cuts down the probability further, then I am willing to do the extra work.
I am getting to old to go to jail because I was lazy and some angry prosecutor wants to make statistics to increase his reelection probability.
Have a safe holiday weekend
B
Been lurking on the forums for some time trying to find the answers to some questions that have been clattering around in my brain since I decided I wanted to become a caregiver.
Let me just say, I have no dreams of becoming a distributor to the masses and growing bales of weed to make forts out of in the backyard, just enough for the wife and myself.
I won't go into the description of our problems, suffice it to say, a lot of pills every day for decades have arguably started causing more damage than they were intended to correct for and assist us with.
My questions concern the business aspects. I want to err well on the conservative side so that by some horrible freak of random bad luck, I don't become a test case, because I forgot to ask some simple question.
I have seen the forms for applying with the State of Michigan. No problem there, so easy a stoner could fill them out, including many threads about them and linking to the State website page with the pages. Great.
What I haven't found is the process, used by those of you that are not growing in your homes, to "get legal" with your local city/township/county authorities.
I assume you filed a D.B.A. and whatever business paperwork to establish the business. Fine, easy to do. But, where do you go and what did you do next to get approval from your municipality? Or did you do nothing? Did you have to go to a city council meeting and plead your case? (perhaps extravagant but you can see where I am going I hope). I have to assume someone out there is doing something along this line with all the various authorities putting moratoriums on caregiver/dispensary businesses in so many locations throughout the state.
What did you tell the authorities your business was going to be providing? Did you have an attorney create some clever wording based on the MMJ law wording/phrasing?
Now, at this time I do not intend on taking on other patients, at least until the laws are more solidified and some of these test cases get processed. But, in the eventuality that I should decide to in the future, does sales tax apply to any/all of the products that could potentially be provided to our patients?
There are many legal aspects that an enterprising sheriff/police officer/prosecuting attorney could use to shut you down if they really wanted to do so. Hell, not paying sales tax invites you to all kinds of potential issues with the state authorities which can leap frog to the IRS if they really want to punish you for no other reason than they found your application or DBA on file as a Caregiver in their jurisdiction. I realize that is pessimistic and alarmist, and I don't honestly see this happening, but if a little homework and asking questions cuts down the probability further, then I am willing to do the extra work.
I am getting to old to go to jail because I was lazy and some angry prosecutor wants to make statistics to increase his reelection probability.
Have a safe holiday weekend
B