{"id":20540,"date":"2017-10-24T15:04:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T23:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/24\/florida-lawmakers-angry-over-medical-cannabis-licensing-delay\/"},"modified":"2017-10-25T12:39:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T20:39:00","slug":"florida-lawmakers-angry-over-medical-cannabis-licensing-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/24\/florida-lawmakers-angry-over-medical-cannabis-licensing-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida lawmakers angry over medical cannabis licensing delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s top medical marijuana regulator was <a href=\"http:\/\/miami.cbslocal.com\/2017\/10\/24\/florida-medical-marijuana-license-delays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cscolded\u201d by state lawmakers<\/a> on Tuesday after his office missed a mandated deadline to issue more MMJ business licenses.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Bax, the executive director of the Office of Medical Marijuana Use, received a tongue-lashing from state senators who are frustrated the state hadn\u2019t issued another 10 MMJ business permits by Oct. 3, as his office had been mandated to do.<\/p>\n<p>According to CBS Miami, Bax hasn\u2019t yet hired a vendor to begin scoring license applications, even though the process was supposed to be finished weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Bax, however, contended that the<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/florida-lawmakers-angry-medical-cannabis-licensing-delay\/\">Florida lawmakers angry over medical cannabis licensing delay<\/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\/florida-lawmakers-angry-medical-cannabis-licensing-delay\/\" target=\"_blank\">Florida lawmakers angry over medical cannabis licensing delay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u2019s top medical marijuana regulator was \u201cscolded\u201d by state lawmakers on Tuesday after his office missed a mandated deadline to issue more MMJ business licenses. Christian Bax, the executive director of the Office of Medical Marijuana Use, received a tongue-lashing from state senators who are frustrated the state hadn\u2019t issued<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/24\/florida-lawmakers-angry-over-medical-cannabis-licensing-delay\/\">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":[4,1058,46,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20540"}],"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=20540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20541,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20540\/revisions\/20541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}