{"id":17559,"date":"2017-07-07T09:07:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T17:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/07\/07\/governor-overhauls-maryland-medical-cannabis-commission\/"},"modified":"2017-07-07T12:38:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T20:38:03","slug":"governor-overhauls-maryland-medical-cannabis-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/07\/07\/governor-overhauls-maryland-medical-cannabis-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor overhauls Maryland medical cannabis commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Maryland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/baltimore\/news\/2017\/07\/06\/hogan-overhauls-medical-marijuana-commission-with.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gov. Larry Hogan overhauled<\/a> the state\u2019s 16-member medical cannabis commission this week, making 10 appointments and doubling its minority representation.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan filled three vacancies on the panel, replaced six commissioners whose terms had expired and reappointed a 10th commissioner, assistant comptroller John Gontrum, according to the Baltimore Business Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission \u2013 including the Legislative Black Caucus \u2013 have charged the panel lacked diversity and failed in a mandate to ensure minorities are represented among grow and dispensary licensees.<\/p>\n<p>The other nine appointees, according to the Business Journal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charles LoDico,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/governor-overhauls-maryland-medical-mmj-commission\/\">Governor overhauls Maryland medical cannabis commission<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\">Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal &amp; Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/governor-overhauls-maryland-medical-mmj-commission\/\" target=\"_blank\">Governor overhauls Maryland medical cannabis commission<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan overhauled the state\u2019s 16-member medical cannabis commission this week, making 10 appointments and doubling its minority representation. Hogan filled three vacancies on the panel, replaced six commissioners whose terms had expired and reappointed a 10th commissioner, assistant comptroller John Gontrum, according to the Baltimore Business Journal.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/07\/07\/governor-overhauls-maryland-medical-cannabis-commission\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,548,443,474,549],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17560,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559\/revisions\/17560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}