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Governor Talks About Marijuana, Drought and Child Welfare Issues

Gov. John Hickenlooper
State of Colorado
Gov. John Hickenlooper

At least two Colorado counties are planning to opt out of some of the provisions allowed for in Amendment 64 that legalized the use of small amounts of recreational marijuana.

The voter approved amendment is just one of the topics that KUNC’s state capitol reporter Bente Birkeland recently asked Governor John Hickenlooper to comment on.

%22No%20one%20is%20going%20to%20make%20massive%20investments%20in%20cultivation%20or%20distribution%20of%20this%20newly%20legal%20marijuana%20without%20seeing%20what%20the%20Federal%20Government%20is%20going%20to%20do.%20Right%20now%20the%20law%20of%20the%20land%20passed%20by%20both%20houses%20of%20Congress%20and%20signed%20by%20the%20President%20of%20the%20United%20States%20is%20that%20marijuana%20is%20an%20illegal%20controlled%20substance.%22%20-%20Governor%20John%20Hickenlooper

Bente Birkeland is an award-winning journalist who joined Colorado Public Radio in August 2018 after a decade of reporting on the Colorado state capitol for the Rocky Mountain Community Radio collaborative and KUNC. In 2017, Bente was named Colorado Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), and she was awarded with a National Investigative Reporting Award by SPJ a year later.
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