Last night, the unthinkable happened: Not one, but two politicians admitted they were wrong.
Getty ImagesOn October 11, Mayor Michael Hancock and former Colorado governor-now-U.S.-Senator John Hickenlooper attended a ten-year anniversary celebration of, the voter-approved initiative that legalized recreational marijuana in this state. Sharing the stage with proponents and authors of the country's first successful recreational marijuana legalization measure, both Hancock and Hickenlooper reflected on their previous attitudes regarding the plant.
When Sensible Colorado and Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation , two organizations that campaigned for Amendment 64, were pushing their message to voters in 2011, though, they didn't have an ally in Denver's new mayor. Nor did they have support from Hickenlooper, then in the Governor's Office.
"This was such a better societal decision than the world I grew up in," Hickenlooper told the crowd, acknowledging that he smoked pot when he was sixteen. The country is"at a point now where I think it's time for the federal government to step up to the big boy table, and get this done," he added.Hancock, who is now the chair of a cannabis caucus for the U.S.
Although Hancock and Hickenlooper opposed marijuana legalization, advocates praised them for following the will of the voters after Amendment 64 passed on November 6, 2012, and implementing programs to regulate recreational marijuana in the city and the state.
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