{"id":28162,"date":"2018-07-27T13:12:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T21:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2018\/07\/27\/contentious-medical-marijuana-regulator-in-florida-stepping-down\/"},"modified":"2018-07-28T12:47:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T20:47:24","slug":"contentious-medical-marijuana-regulator-in-florida-stepping-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2018\/07\/27\/contentious-medical-marijuana-regulator-in-florida-stepping-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Contentious medical marijuana regulator in Florida stepping down"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s top medical marijuana regulator has resigned after a controversial three-year tenure marked by litigation and a scolding by lawmakers for missing mandated deadlines to issue more MMJ business licenses. The Florida Department of Health said Friday that Christian Bax\u2019s resignation will take effect Aug. 10. He had led the state\u2019s Office of Medical Marijuana [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/contentious-medical-marijuana-director-in-florida-stepping-down\/\">Contentious medical marijuana regulator in Florida stepping down<\/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\/contentious-medical-marijuana-director-in-florida-stepping-down\/\" target=\"_blank\">Contentious medical marijuana regulator in Florida stepping down<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u2019s top medical marijuana regulator has resigned after a controversial three-year tenure marked by litigation and a scolding by lawmakers for missing mandated deadlines to issue more MMJ business licenses. The Florida Department of Health said Friday that Christian Bax\u2019s resignation will take effect Aug. 10. He had led the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2018\/07\/27\/contentious-medical-marijuana-regulator-in-florida-stepping-down\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5113,46,981,10,195],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28162"}],"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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28163,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28162\/revisions\/28163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}