Michigan CRA-aware dispensary platform

Statutes that bite

Tax stack

Compliance topics surfaced in-platform

• Age 21+ adult-use / 18+ medical at the register — a Michigan patient under eighteen is registered only where the parent or legal guardian consents in writing to serve as primary caregiver and to “control the acquisition of the marihuana, the dosage, and the frequency” (MCL 333.26426(b)(3)(C)), so the caregiver transacts and the register floor holds at 18 whatever the patient’s age
• METRC tag handoff + manifest reconciliation per R 420.503-.504
• Patient registry lookup hook (medical store profile)
• Inventory and transaction entry into the statewide monitoring system — note the CRA sets no daily reconciliation cadence. R 420.505(2) requires a sales location to “enter all transactions, current inventory, and other information required by these rules in the statewide monitoring system” and to “maintain appropriate records … and make them available to the agency upon request”. That is a CONTEMPORANEOUS duty, not an end-of-day one. Our daily reconciliation report is a convenience on top of it, not the thing that satisfies it
• Adverse-event + product-recall flags surfaced inline at sale

What CannAgent is built toward for MI

• ✓Adult-use + medical product lanes with separate tax stacks (10% AU excise / 6% sales)
• ✓CRFTA wholesale-excise tracked at the tier that actually owes it — the 24% line most multi-state POS will treat as a retail-tier flat percentage and quietly mis-allocate after Jan 1, 2026. Two traps beyond the tier: MCL 205.905(b) taxes a retail licensee on what it cultivates and processes ITSELF, and MCL 205.903(m) says the base for transfers between AFFILIATED persons is "the average wholesale price of the marihuana", not the intercompany invoice — so a vertically integrated group cannot price its own transfers into a lower tax
• ✓Cross-store reporting that rolls up — built for the 3-10 store mid-market chain that sits between a custom enterprise build and a single-store package
• ✓METRC-shaped inventory + sale receipt mirror
• ✓Daily reconciliation report (auto-runs at close)
• ✓Manager write-up assistant configurable to MI labor + CRA rule taxonomy

Operator playbooks

Michigan cannabis retail — common questions

Who regulates cannabis retail in Michigan?

Michigan Cannabis Regulatory Agency (CRA) is the state cannabis regulator for Michigan. Official site: https://www.michigan.gov/cra.

What seed-to-sale track-and-trace system does Michigan use?

Michigan uses METRC (Franwell) for seed-to-sale traceability — the de-facto standard across most regulated states. CannAgent maps its inventory and transfer events to METRC's required fields.

What cannabis taxes apply to retail in Michigan?

10% adult-use retail excise (MRTMA) + 24% wholesale excise (CRFTA, effective Jan 1, 2026) on adult-use marihuana. MCL 205.905 levies that 24% in THREE circumstances, not one: (a) the first sale or transfer from a marihuana establishment to a retail licensee, taxed on the establishment; (b) marihuana CULTIVATED AND PROCESSED FOR RETAIL SALE BY THE RETAIL LICENSEE ITSELF, taxed on that retail licensee; and (c) a transfer from a provisioning center to a retail licensee, taxed on the provisioning center. A vertically integrated store that grows its own product owes the 24% on limb (b) even though no invoice ever arrives — a system that reads only inbound wholesale invoices computes zero there. The 24% follows the adult-use channel: a medical provisioning center transferring to an adult-use retailer is subject to it; purely medical (MMFLA) wholesale is not. 6% Michigan state sales tax — applied to both adult-use and medical retail sales. MRTMA has no local-option retail add-on; municipal allocations distributed from state collections. Wholesale tier (CRFTA) is state-only.

Is CannAgent available for Michigan dispensaries?

Michigan is a priority build market: the CRA regulatory depth on this page is current and the MI code build is in flight. We can only set up stores in Washington and Arizona today — request a scoped demo and we’ll tell you exactly what is built for MI before you sign.

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