Dealing with pot (snicker, snicker)
Maureen Dowd, NYT
JAN. 28, 2014
DENVER — There’s a lot of giggling in Colorado, and about Colorado, these days.
Except by the state’s leaders, who are like uneasy chaperones at a rowdy school dance.
“It’s insane,” says Senator Michael Bennet.
“It’s no fun,” says Gov. John Hickenlooper, who admits he winces when he hears late-night pot shots, like Jimmy Fallon’s barb: “Stoners took a moment to thank Governor Hickenlooper, then they spent a few hours just saying the word ‘Hickenlooper.’ ”
Sitting in an office filled with panoramic depictions of the West and a New York license plate that belonged to family friend Kurt Vonnegut, the governor, 61, notes: “No matter how big a failure the war on drugs was, you don’t want to be the butt of late-night jokes.”
(More here.)
JAN. 28, 2014
DENVER — There’s a lot of giggling in Colorado, and about Colorado, these days.
Except by the state’s leaders, who are like uneasy chaperones at a rowdy school dance.
“It’s insane,” says Senator Michael Bennet.
“It’s no fun,” says Gov. John Hickenlooper, who admits he winces when he hears late-night pot shots, like Jimmy Fallon’s barb: “Stoners took a moment to thank Governor Hickenlooper, then they spent a few hours just saying the word ‘Hickenlooper.’ ”
Sitting in an office filled with panoramic depictions of the West and a New York license plate that belonged to family friend Kurt Vonnegut, the governor, 61, notes: “No matter how big a failure the war on drugs was, you don’t want to be the butt of late-night jokes.”
(More here.)
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