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On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 22:05:29 +0000 (UTC), "Buzzsaw Checkerling" <
buzzsaw01@aol.com> wrote:
by Mark Harden
April 20, 2018
ColoradoPolitics.com
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper was against legalizing marijuana in the
first place -- but once the voters spoke, he went along and defended >Coloradans' right to use recreational pot.
Now, however, in an interview with CNN, he appears to be opening the
door a crack to the idea of re-criminalizing cannabis.
Hickenlooper was interviewed for a CNN piece posted Friday that noted a
rise in Colorado crime rates since 2014, when recreation marijuana went
on sale legally in the state following a constitutional amendment
passed by voters in November 2012. (Medical marijuana was legalized in >Colorado years earlier.)
The piece presented conflicting views from Colorado law enforcement
officials as to whether the crime rise and pot legalization are related. >Asked in the interview whether he was ruling out a correlation between
a rising crime rate and legal marijuana, Hickenlooper told CNN: "No,
I'm not ruling it out."
When CNN's interviewer said: "But no one is saying you can put the
genie back in the bottle" -- re-criminalizing marijuana -- the
Democratic governor said this:
"Not yet we aren't, but trust me, if the data was coming back and we
saw spikes in violent crime, we saw spikes in overall crime, there
would be a lot of people looking for that bottle and figuring out how
we get the genie back in. It doesn't seem likely to me, but I'm not
ruling it out."
Potheads aren't likely to go on violent crime sprees.
Watching Beavis-and-Butthead reruns is more their
speed :-)
If the gov is worried about violent crime, let him send
a few thousand national guard down to the border.
Oh, and now that weed is a HUGE moneymaker in
that state, if the gov is worried about his political
future then he should never speak of recriminalization
ever again ......
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