John Hickenlooper
John Hickenlooper
John Wright Hickenlooper, Jr.is a member of the Democratic Party and the 42nd and current Governor of Colorado. Hickenlooper has served as governor since 2011. He serves as a member of the Western Governors' Association, and was the chairman of the National Governors Association, from 2014-2015...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 February 1952
CountryUnited States of America
marijuana thinking anxiety
"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 youth consumption although there are some things that are disconcerting."
marijuana healthy trying
"As Colorado attempts to build its brand as a healthy state, marijuana "dilutes what you're trying to do."
marijuana addiction way
"We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction."
responsibility marijuana trying
"We have a responsibility and an obligation to do everything we can to try to make this work."
marijuana different packaging
"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, once you took the packaging off there was nothing to show it was any different than candy."
marijuana cash want
"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 legal marijuana," he said, make it an all cash business."
marijuana thinking people
"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 to go through pretty rigorous regulation."
thinking marijuana firsts
"I think decriminalization would've been a wiser first step."
cities faces citizens
A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
running cities people
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 to imagine any honeymoon.
moving cities trying
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 honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward.
issues environmental nuclear
I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.
subjectivity honeymoon position
From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.
running creating people
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 people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability.