{"id":2203,"date":"2018-07-27T20:06:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T20:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2018-07-27T20:06:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T20:06:05","slug":"christian-bax-officially-quits-as-floridas-top-medical-marijuana-czar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/2018\/07\/27\/christian-bax-officially-quits-as-floridas-top-medical-marijuana-czar\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Bax Officially Quits as Florida&#8217;s Top Medical Marijuana Czar"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"cb-itemprop\" itemprop=\"reviewBody\"><p><strong>Christian Bax<\/strong>, director of Florida\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridahealth.gov\/programs-and-services\/office-of-medical-marijuana-use\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Office of Medical Marijuana Use (OMMU)<\/strong><\/a>, has officially stepped down After a very controversial three years that pissed off Patients, Frustrated lawmakers and witnessed a pile of lawsuits Costing taxpayers millions.<\/p>\n<p>His resignation Goes into effect August 10. The deputy director, Courtney Coppola Will be taking over as interim director as stated by Florida Department of health spokesman\u00a0Devin Galleta stated Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Bax has yet to reviewHis future career plans (see Below)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2204\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2204\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2204\" src=\"http:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-27-at-2.23.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"668\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-27-at-2.23.39-PM.png 668w, https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-27-at-2.23.39-PM-300x221.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Bax resignation letter<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the past, Bax has faced criticism on reports that he had little experience and got the high profile job before the job opening was ever publicly announced. Relying on nepotism and family connections Wwith Gov. Rick Scott and his father James Bax, who is described as a wealthy connected Tallahassee insider.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"mantis__recommended__wordpress\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\">\n    MANTIS_RECOMMEND = {\n        property: '556c86bbbf60bd001d672ecb',\n        render: 'mantis__recommended__wordpress'\n    };\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\">\n\tvar z = document.createElement(\"script\");\n\tz.type = \"text\/javascript\";\n\tz.async = true;\n\tz.src = \"\/\/assets.mantisadnetwork.com\/recommend.min.js\";\n\tvar s = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];\n\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(z, s);\n<\/script><\/p>\n<link href=\"\/\/assets.mantisadnetwork.com\/recommend.3columns.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Bax, director of Florida\u2019s Office of Medical Marijuana Use (OMMU), has officially stepped down After a very controversial three years that pissed off Patients, Frustrated lawmakers and witnessed a pile of lawsuits Costing taxpayers millions. His resignation Goes into effect August 10. The deputy director, Courtney Coppola Will be taking over as interim director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[222,315,314,79,272,66,313,306],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1200x628-med-mmj.002-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}