{"id":19935,"date":"2017-10-03T14:52:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T22:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/03\/new-acting-drug-enforcement-administration-chief-appointed\/"},"modified":"2017-10-05T00:45:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T08:45:44","slug":"new-acting-drug-enforcement-administration-chief-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/03\/new-acting-drug-enforcement-administration-chief-appointed\/","title":{"rendered":"New acting Drug Enforcement Administration chief appointed"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday announced that the new acting administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration will be Robert W. Patterson, a career DEA official who started with the agency in 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Patterson \u2013 the principal deputy administrator of the DEA since November 2016 \u2013 replaces outgoing DEA head Chuck Rosenberg, who <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/acting-dea-chief-chuck-rosenberg-stepping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tendered his resignation last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The DEA has been without a permanent director since Michele Leonhart left the job of administrator in 2015. After that, Rosenberg took on the job of \u201cacting administrator\u201d and wound up staying on until he announced his departure<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/acting-drug-enforcement-administration-chief-appointed\/\">New acting Drug Enforcement Administration chief appointed<\/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\/acting-drug-enforcement-administration-chief-appointed\/\" target=\"_blank\">New acting Drug Enforcement Administration chief appointed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday announced that the new acting administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration will be Robert W. Patterson, a career DEA official who started with the agency in 1988. Patterson \u2013 the principal deputy administrator of the DEA since November 2016 \u2013 replaces outgoing DEA<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/03\/new-acting-drug-enforcement-administration-chief-appointed\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,815,10,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19935"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19936,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19935\/revisions\/19936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}