DETROIT (WWJ) – A Detroit medical marijuana dispensary has been fined and had its license suspended after state regulators found multiple violations during an unannounced compliance visit.
The House of Mary Jane, on James Couzens Freeway near 7 Mile Road, is facing a 30-day suspension of its medical marijuana provisioning center facility license, Michigan’s Cannabis Regulatory Agency announced Monday.
The business was also ordered to pay a $75,000 fine.
When the CRA conducted its compliance visit, officials found multiple bags, backpacks and duffle bags of suspected marijuana products that did not have tracking ID numbers attached, according to the agency.
The business was told not to sell or destroy the untagged products until the investigation was completed and until given further guidance. The CRA also requested the business provide 30 days of video surveillance footage, but the owners failed to do so, according to the agency.
The CRA returned to the House of Mary Jane and asked about the untagged products, but business officials claimed to have destroyed the remaining product.
Video surveillance recordings of the product destruction were requested but not provided by the business, the CRA said.
Representatives of The House of Mary Jane recently signed a consent order, allowing the CRA to treat the allegations as true for the purposes of resolving the formal complaint.
"The Cannabis Regulatory Agency has a legal responsibility to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public," said CRA spokesman David Harns. "Our licensees must follow all of the rules and laws that govern the cannabis industry. Untagged marijuana products and the inability to provide video footage is simply unacceptable.”
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The CRA is using this case to remind its licensees that the Michigan Administrative Rules require, in part, all of the following:
• Marijuana businesses must not have any marijuana product without a batch number or identification tag or label.
• A licensee shall keep surveillance recordings for a minimum of 30 days, except in instances of investigation or inspection by the agency, in which case the licensee shall retain the recordings until the time as the agency notifies the licensee that the recordings may be destroyed.
• Surveillance recordings of the licensee are subject to inspection by the agency and must be kept in a manner that allows the agency to view and obtain copies of the recordings immediately upon request.
Disciplinary actions taken against CRA licensees may now be viewed in the public-facing database for CRA licensees. To view disciplinary documents:
• Click the “Find a Cannabis Business in our Database” button on the front page of the CRA website.
• On the landing page, determine the type of license – adult-use or medical – and click the appropriate link.
• Search for the business and click the licensee’s link to see their landing page in the CRA database; all publicly available disciplinary documents will be linked at the bottom of the record.
The public can submit complaints online via the complaint submission process. The Citizens’ Guide to Filing a Complaint is available on the CRA website and walks the complainant through the simple and easy process to file an online complaint with the CRA.
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