John Hickenlooper Quotes

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• "As Colorado attempts to build its brand as a healthy state, marijuana "dilutes what you're trying to do."
• "I think decriminalization would've been a wiser first step."
• "One of the best things about marijuana legalization: "I think the black market has been damaged. I think people are willing to pay taxes and…
• "Some of the anxiety has been laid to rest. We don't see a spike in adult use. We don't think we see a spike in…
• "One of the governor's concerns: "This high-THC marijuana, what can it do to a brain that is still developing?"
• "One of the governor's complaints: federal rules that prohibit dispensary owners from putting their money in banks. "If you really want to introduce corruption into…
• "On unanticipated problems: There's been "a dramatic increase in edibles." And "no one had ever worried about dosage sizes. The original edibles that came out,…
• "We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction."
• "On what motivated Colorado voters: "Let's face it, the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned ... but it sent millions…
• "We have a responsibility and an obligation to do everything we can to try to make this work."
• A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
• Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard…
• Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it…
• From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.
• America is always attracting people, from all over the earth.
• Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.
• I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to…
• In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are…
• Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring…
• There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000…

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