Author Topic: Colorado Governor Concedes Legal Marijuana Hasn't Turned His State Into a Stoner Hellscape  (Read 398 times)

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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper didn't want his residents to approve 2012's ballot initiative legalizing recreational marijuana. But in a lengthy interview with The Denver Post's Alicia Wallace, the craft beer-brewing governor says the "worst nightmares" of legalization opponents "haven't materialized."

"We haven't seen a spike in teenage use," Hickenlooper told Wallace. "We haven't seen a giant increase in people's consumption of marijuana. Seems like the people who were using marijuana before it was legal, still are. Seems like the people who weren't using marijuana before it was legal, still aren't."....

http://reason.com/blog/2017/03/31/colorado-governor-concedes-legal-marijua