The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.
John HickenlooperPeople don't realize that almost two-thirds of the population in the United States lives in a state where either medical or recreational marijuana are now legal. Two-thirds of the country. I am looking at it as kind of a 10th Amendment, states'-rights issue.
John HickenlooperWe have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction.
John HickenlooperWe have a responsibility and an obligation to do everything we can to try to make this work.
John Hickenlooper"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 of kids to prison, gave them felonies often times when they had no violent crimes ... I was against this, but I can see why so many people supported it."
John Hickenlooper