Standard GLG meetup / sesh in Ann Arbor on the Saturday of Hash Bash
Also hosting a little locals cup (entries due this week, shoot me or @Dabbagepatchkidd a DM for entry info, or email her directly at Glgmichigan.info@gmail.com) proceeds from the cup split between a winners pot and the Weed for Warriors charity
I won’t be there, unfortunately. I’ll be getting ready for the Maine Event with @Dred_pirate and Nikka-T.
I know @future will be there. I’m sure we can expect some other Michigan friends as well
I dont know why specifically to Michigan but in Oregon most of these cannbis/growers cups are private unsanctioned events that are not approved by the OLCC and when you enter they have and olcc agent come take notes on who was there breaking the law and who entered their competition. Most of these events are filled with licensed operators handing out products or samples and then get slapped with fines and violations for not following the law. (in oregon there is no legal way to hand out product samples to the public even if it was purchased from a dispo and handed out.)
So my guess would be something along the lines of that but im not current with michigan laws and what they can do but i assume is as backwards and hard to be compliant as it is in oregon.
In Michigan, it is 100% legal for you to give another adult cannabis. This is legal and there are legal ways to do it both in METRC and post-METRC activities. In METRC you can give things out to your employees, not an issue. post-METRC an adult can purchase the materials (or be given the materials as an employee) and then can give them to someone else.
There are “limits” to how much you can give to your employee each month. And there are some limits to how much you are supposed to carry on your person at any one time. However, those limits are more than 28 grams for flower.
Michigan is kind of awesome in this way. The legalization in 2008 and then again in 2018 really considered the individuals rights to “share” with his friends. Which includes sharing anything that came from a dispensary.
Now if you didn’t have an employee willing to give away their share (it happens) or you didn’t have access to a dispensary that had your product on the shelf that an adult could buy to share - it would be VERY difficult to do this in a compliant manner.
But damn - if you aren’t your own METRC employee and willing to do this, WTF.
And if you aren’t in a single dispensary in the state… well fuck man… competing in a cannabis cup with GLG is probably not going to help your business enough… but maybe.
Fucking sucks that people would be weird about things in Oregon. I heard most states don’t have good “sampling” programs. There are a lot of different sampling programs here in Michigan and I appreciate all of them. Especially since that means I can send my employees home with our latest and greatest to get feedback from them. I always thought of it as a perk - but its also great marketing and excellent data collection opportunity. <3
We allow processors licenses to do “In house quality control samples” 5 grams per production batch is allowed to be sampled and given to employees only, these are untagged samples but tracked in metrc. You can also do trade samples that are allowed to be given to another licensed wholesaler or dispensary and these have metrc tags.
There is no compliant way in oregon to hand out samples to a judge of a competition unless its sanctioned by the OLCC.
However its usually the people that sign up as vendors for the shows that get in trouble as they are openly handing out products for consumption and a lot of times also providing the device in which they are consuming the said product.
I wanted to do this but I’ve had the samples on my counter for a little less than a month now and even sent out “uh whats going on?” Emails weeks ago (23rd and the 28th) to see what was up with no response then just got one this morning saying it needs to be mailed immediately? No bueno. Anyone else dealt with this? Its hard to go from weeks of radio silence to “oh better buy a plane ticket” when you have a family.
Thank you for bringing this to attention, I am sincerely sorry that there was lapse in communication on how to submit your samples. All out of state submissions would have needed to be mailed per the Entry Rules in the GLG Cup drive. I am unsure of the plane ticket issue? To allow adequate time for judging I would not have been able to intake samples at or close to the event.
As I stated in the email I sent you personally this morning, I am more than happy to accept your submissions and hold off on distributing the judges kits a couple days to allow your participation. However if you are unable or uninterested in participating due to the delay, I fully understand and hope to serve you better in the future
One of my favorite Michigan events and a GLG party! HUZZAH!
