{"id":20146,"date":"2017-10-12T04:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/12\/maine-appoints-new-medical-cannabis-program-director\/"},"modified":"2017-10-12T13:01:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T21:01:12","slug":"maine-appoints-new-medical-cannabis-program-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/12\/maine-appoints-new-medical-cannabis-program-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine appoints new medical cannabis program director"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Maine\u2019s medical marijuana program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2017\/10\/11\/state-names-new-medical-marijuana-director\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">finally has a new director<\/a>, after the position went unfilled for a year.<\/p>\n<p>Marietta D\u2019Agostino, a former director of the state\u2019s MMJ program, left in 2016 for a job in the private cannabis sector, and Craig Patterson, an analyst with the state\u2019s health department, was chosen this week to fill her shoes.<\/p>\n<p>A health department spokeswoman declined to offer specifics about Patterson\u2019s hiring, according to the Portland Press Herald, but he\u2019s been with the agency for roughly two years and is taking on the role just as the state is preparing to launch<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/maine-appoints-new-medical-cannabis-program-director\/\">Maine appoints new medical cannabis program director<\/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\/maine-appoints-new-medical-cannabis-program-director\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maine appoints new medical cannabis program director<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine\u2019s medical marijuana program finally has a new director, after the position went unfilled for a year. Marietta D\u2019Agostino, a former director of the state\u2019s MMJ program, left in 2016 for a job in the private cannabis sector, and Craig Patterson, an analyst with the state\u2019s health department, was chosen<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/12\/maine-appoints-new-medical-cannabis-program-director\/\">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":[4,844,1201],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146"}],"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=20146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20147,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146\/revisions\/20147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}