FEEDBACK | Our guv is one to point fingers at pot
Gov Hickenlooper says that if data indicates and supports that an intoxicant contributes to a public-safety problem, then he will rethink what the voters have approved and as a public servant work to recriminalize it.
Well, the jury has come back and alcohol is the scourge that everyone knew it was. Domestic violence, drunken-driving deaths, and a myriad of social issues. I look forward to his repenting his sins of creating and profiting from a beer dispensary and now working tirelessly toward ridding this cancer from our public health system.
Mike Thomas Pueblo
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