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March 11, 2016 01:47 PM UTC

Hickenlooper Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot on Legal Weed

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  • by: Colorado Pols
Gov. John Hickenlooper.
Gov. John Hickenlooper.

7NEWS Marshall Zelinger reports, Colorado’s most well-intentioned gaffe machine, Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, is at it again:

At a conference in Dallas on Tuesday, on public-private partnerships — like the U.S 36 expansion and toll lanes — Gov. John Hickenlooper warned the decision makers about legalizing marijuana.

While showing a slide that said millennials will outnumber baby boomers by 22 million in the year 2030, he said the following:

“You get all those young people who do certain things that some of us oppose and aren’t crazy about, like legalizing marijuana. Let me tell you, if you’re trying to encourage businesses to move to your state, some of the larger businesses, think twice about legalizing marijuana.”

The weed biz.
The weed biz.

Back in Colorado, folks puzzled to figure out what Hickenlooper meant, since:

At his State of the State address in January, the Governor made reference to booming business.

“Since July 2014, we’ve secured 9,000 new jobs created by companies relocating to Colorado, and existing businesses expanding here. Companies like DaVita, Intel, Reed Group, FiveStars, Gusto and Proximity Malt,” said Hickenlooper.

So, you know, what gives?

“The governor knows marijuana is part of the conversation in recruiting companies to Colorado, but it has not had any measurable impact to the economy,” his office said in a statement to Denver7.

Bottom line: we really don’t know what Hickenlooper was thinking here, but it’s not the first time he has come out of left field to disparage marijuana legalization without any evidence–indeed contradicting other statements about marijuana, or at least about its economic effects. It’s possible Hickenlooper feels obliged to talk down marijuana in front of certain audiences so as not to offend their sensibilities.

The problem is that there’s no factual basis, and it doesn’t in any way help Colorado to say this stuff. Hickenlooper’s comments needlessly imperil the objective of attracting investment to our state, and runs counter to all the news reporting on the issue voters in other states considering marijuana legalization are reading. They run counter to the experience of Coloradans since marijuana was legalized in 2012.

So please, Governor, knock this crap off.

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22 thoughts on “Hickenlooper Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot on Legal Weed”

  1. Jeezuz, …

    … and here I thought Governor DoLittle had just gone into an extended hibernation torpor …

    … almost six weeks after the Marmot saw his shadow, the WTFenlooper has reemerged.

  2. Prisons.  Must build more prisons.   And how can we fill them if we can't arrest people for smoking weed?  Must have more prisons.  Must have more prisons.  Must have…

    1. speaking of which: Doug TABOR Bruce going to prison for tax evasion. 

      DENVER – Former state Rep. Douglas Bruce was taken from a courtroom in handcuffs after he was sentenced to at least two years in prison Friday.

      Bruce, 66, was convicted in 2012 of tax evasion, filing a false tax return and trying to influence a public servant. Denver District Judge Sheila A. Rappaport ruled on Jan. 19 that he violated five terms of his probation.

       

      2. Shows that it does NOT pay to agree to terms, then violate those terms. Judges tend to frown and respond to those sorts of things. Especially when the underlying charges show a contempt for government.

      1. seriously, does that make you high?  I won't smoke weed because I can't smoke (severe allergies."  Never thought of the water cure.   I confess, though that my real drug of choice is a decent cabernet.

        1. First of all, their are some legitimate THC tinctures and beverages that (I'm told) are quite nice tasting and pharmacologically interesting (I'm told).  Bong water, however, is not one of those (I'm told).

          ;~)

          in 'Hick's case, it wouldn't matter, I'm sure. He's made a political career, and a closet industry, out of being unaffected by any liquids he consumes …

    4. That's what I figure. Tokers drink less beer to relax. Maybe when his governorship times out he can open a dispensary next to his bar and he'll stop being such a stick-in-the-mud.

  6. Hickenlooper wets finger and tests the wind. Wind is not blowing. Next, Hickenlooper says exactly the opposite of what he said last time. Months later, repeat.

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