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.

Is CannAgent available for Michigan dispensaries?

Yes — Michigan is a featured onboarding market. The CRA-aware POS and back office is available now; request a scoped demo at /demo.

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Active market

Michigan CRA-aware dispensary platform

Built for the 3-10 store Michigan operator who’s outgrown off-the-shelf POS but isn’t paying 365 Cannabis enterprise rates. CRA rules native — METRC integration, 10% retail excise + 24% CRFTA wholesale excise (effective Jan 1, 2026) + 6% sales tax, cross-store reporting that actually rolls up, and the medical / adult-use lane split CRA requires. Multi-store data architecture is the wedge — built around the seams a 3-10 store operator actually hits.

Regulator

Michigan Cannabis Regulatory Agency (CRA)

https://www.michigan.gov/cra ↗

We re-check this regulatorweekly— active rulemaking / transition / year-over-year schedule

Statutes that bite

Citation	Subject
MCL 333.27951	Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act
MCL 333.27101	Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act
R 420.201+	CRA marihuana rules — administrative code
R 420.502	Statewide monitoring system (METRC) reporting
MCL 333.27963	10% adult-use retail excise tax structure
CRFTA (2026)	24% wholesale marihuana excise — producer→retailer tier, effective Jan 1, 2026

Tax stack

Excise

10% adult-use retail excise (MRTMA) + 24% wholesale excise (CRFTA, effective Jan 1, 2026) on adult-use marihuana, imposed on the first sale/transfer to a retail licensee. 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.

Sales / Use

6% Michigan state sales tax — applied to both adult-use and medical retail sales.

Local option

MRTMA has no local-option retail add-on; municipal allocations distributed from state collections. Wholesale tier (CRFTA) is state-only.

Compliance topics surfaced in-platform

Age 21+ adult-use / 18+ medical ID verification with split lanes
METRC tag handoff + manifest reconciliation per R 420.503-.504
Patient registry lookup hook (medical store profile)
Daily inventory reconciliation export shaped for CRA record-keeping
Adverse-event + product-recall flags surfaced inline at sale

What ships on day-1 for MI

Adult-use + medical product lanes with separate tax stacks (10% AU excise / 6% sales)
CRFTA wholesale-excise pass-through tracked at producer→retailer tier (the 24% line most multi-state POS will treat as a retail-tier flat percentage and quietly mis-allocate after Jan 1, 2026)
Cross-store reporting that rolls up — built for the 3-10 store mid-market chain that Lume-tier custom stacks ignore and Dutchie-tier off-the-shelf flattens
METRC-shaped inventory + sale receipt mirror
Daily reconciliation report (auto-runs at close)
Manager write-up assistant configurable to MI labor + CRA rule taxonomy

We serve here — honestly

We don’t operate stores in Michigan. We do follow CRA bulletins, the daily reconciliation pain, and the adult-use vs medical lane split. CannAgent ships MI support with the same compliance discipline we apply to WSLCB — and we’ll say it directly when something’s off.

Operator playbooks

Compliance ops playbook

State traceability reconciliation — the daily, weekly, monthly discipline

Buyer scorecard

Picking a cannabis POS: the 7-question scorecard

Migration playbook

POS migration: a 4-week playbook for cannabis dispensaries

Operations deep-dive

Cash discipline at a cannabis dispensary: variance, escalation, audit

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, imposed on the first sale/transfer to a retail licensee. 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?: Yes — Michigan is a featured onboarding market. The CRA-aware POS and back office is available now; request a scoped demo at /demo.

See it on your MI data.

30-minute demo on a sandbox shaped like your store. End the call with a fixed-scope quote and a MI-aware cutover plan.

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