Lawyer and Navy veteran tapped to be Florida's next medical marijuana director
Overseeing nearly 500 medical-marijuana retail sites and more than 750,000 patients, Florida’s new medical pot czar is an attorney who spent more than two decades in the U.S. Navy and served in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps.
Florida Department of Health officials on Tuesday confirmed that Christopher Phillip Kimball has been named director of the state’s Office of Medical Marijuana Use.
Kimball steps into the post as the state’s medical-marijuana industry could be poised to double in size and as challenges pile up over the agency’s decision to award a sought-after medical-marijuana license to a Black farmer.
Kimball replaces Chris Ferguson, who ran the office for the past three years. F...
