Hundreds of people have come from all over the state to learn a bout medical marijuana. For some it's a crash course in how to get started in a growing industry.
With a growing industry, Amy Boersma and Micheal Halbert want to get involved with medical marijuana before it gets too crowded.
But with changing rules and regulations it's hard for them to keep up.
"We want to do it right, you know we want to do it professionally. We want to do it legally. We want to abide by all the rules and regulations"
said Micheal Halbert.
In order for them to do it the right way, they visited Lansing's first ever Extreme Cannquest. The three day expo is teaching people how to start a legal business that will last.
"A lot of business owners that open a dispensary, they just get into it. They spend some money they open a shop and then they're open" said organizer Maria Green.
Green wanted to have the expo in Lansing because of how accepting the city is to marijuana. As the industry continues to grow she wanted to teach people how to get into the industry and stay.
"Some people aren't doing a lot of educating them selves about how to run a dispensary the best" Green said.
She believes most of the shops on Cedar Street in Lansing will close their doors as things get more regulated.
"Any industry, I think that it goes through some growing pains," Green said. "I think eventually the community, the industry itself would regulate it's self. Shops that aren't getting the business there not going to be able to stay open."
That's why the expo hopes to educate as many people as possible.
"We don't want to just jump into something like that without having the proper information. Learning about stuff like this is fantastic" said Amy Boersma.
Learning as much as they can in a changing industry.
