Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.

Almost all government starts at a very local level at some point.

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 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.

People 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.

"One of the governor's concerns: "This high-THC marijuana, what can it do to a brain that is still developing?"

If you really want to introduce corruption into legal marijuana, make it an all cash business.

"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."