{"id":53784,"date":"2015-06-12T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53784"},"modified":"2015-06-29T07:54:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T12:54:11","slug":"seems-perfectly-legitimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53784","title":{"rendered":"Seems Perfectly Legitimate\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the state officials responsible for “crafting” Minnesota’s medical marijuana law\u2026<\/p>\n

…is taking over at one of Minnesota’s new medical marijuana companies<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A Health Department official charged with overseeing Minnesota\u2019s medical marijuana program has been hired away by one of the state\u2019s new cannabis corporations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

LeafLine Labs, which is growing half the state\u2019s supply of medical marijuana, announced Thursday that it had tapped Assistant Health Commissioner Manny Munson-Regala as its new chief executive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI\u2019m thrilled,\u201d LeafLine co-founder Dr. Andrew Bachman said Thursday. \u201cI have incredible respect for Manny and he has helped to motivate and inspire our organization in this journey.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And doesn’t this response seem just a little\u2026 precious to you?:<\/p>\n

Munson-Regala, who had been overseeing the rollout of the Office of Medical Cannabis for the better part of the year, said his reaction when LeafLine approached him last Wednesday was a startled, \u201cWhat?\u201d In the end, he was attracted to the idea of helping to build a fledgling industry that sits \u201cat the intersection of public policy and health.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And in the clutch almost reads like a journalistic “April fools” joke, state official is quoted as saying Munson-Regal didn’t make any decisions about medical marijuana “in the past week”.<\/p>\n

Well, then\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the state officials responsible for “crafting” Minnesota’s medical marijuana law\u2026 …is taking over at one of Minnesota’s new medical marijuana companies: A Health Department official charged with overseeing Minnesota\u2019s medical marijuana program has been hired away by one of the state\u2019s new cannabis corporations. LeafLine Labs, which is growing half the state\u2019s supply […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53785,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53784\/revisions\/53785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}