Patients in Michigan can order medical marijuana online and have it delivered to their homes, under a new set of rules passed by a panel of legislators Tuesday in Lansing.

The rule is a part of permanent regulations on medical marijuana businesses drafted by the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs and agreed to Tuesday by the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, a panel of legislators that oversees rules proposed by state agencies.

Most of the permanent rules mirror the emergency rules put out by LARA for medical marijuana businesses -- with the exception of the new addition of the home delivery option.

The new rules are effective immediately.

Previously, patients could only get home delivery from caregivers.

Now, patients will be able to order medical marijuana for home delivery from a participating state-licensed provisioning center, said David Harns, spokesman for LARA's Bureau of Medical Marihuana Regulation.

Patients would be able to order and pay online -- in a process as simple as ordering a pizza. Provisioning centers would be responsible for verifying that patients hold medical marijuana cards issued by the state, and would be required to check a government-issued I.D. upon delivery.

Patients can only receive the daily maximum limit -- 2.5 ounces of marijuana flower -- during home deliveries.

There are 40 state-licensed provisioning centers in Michigan; though not all are operational yet. The supply chain of product from licensed growers to shops is not yet complete, as a total of 12 growers have been licensed and not all are up and running.

Provisioning centers would have to both have a state license and file a plan with the state before beginning a home delivery plan, Harns said.

Provisioning centers are allowed to staff one person to make home deliveries, who can only deliver to 10 patients at a time. The provisioning center has to be able to track the delivery's GPS location at all times during the delivery, and logs have to be kept. Deliveries are only allowed to the home address of the patient.

The permanent rules for medical marijuana businesses are a part of state regulator's efforts to comply with a 2016 law. Regulators have been trying to hold temporarily operating dispensaries to a compliance deadline for licensing, but a Michigan Court of Claims judge has stopped that effort twice.

The most recent ruling by Judge Stephen Borrello came at the end of October, one day before the state was poised to issue cease and desist letters to unlicensed medical marijuana dispensaries.

An order from Borrello is preventing state officials from issuing any new deadlines for licensing compliance.

-- Amy Biolchini is the marijuana beat reporter for MLive. Contact her with questions, tips or comments at abiolch1@mlive.com.

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