i guess my question is, we re doing this very rare thing, where we re conducting these live, realtime experiments, you have states taking a radical policy departure, and i wonder whether you and other fellow governors and legislators are thinking about this in an empirical sense of what happens in colorado and washington? i suppose you never say never, right? but the early work doesn t convince me yet, and i m not convinced, based on everything i m seeing and hearing and i don t think states should be going down this road simply for the tax revenue. i think that s the wrong idea, wrong headedness. on the other hand, i have a very aggressive program for recreation of a second chance at society. in connecticut, we tripled our prison population between 1985 and 2008. and it really was not in our best interest, i think, in many ways. we ended up with many, many people having, not only a
live, realtime experiments, you have states taking a radical policy departure, and i wonder whether you and other fellow governors and legislators are thinking about this in an empirical sense of what happens in colorado and washington? i suppose you never say never, right? but the early work doesn t convince me yet, and i m not convinced, based on everything i m seeing and hearing and i don t think states should be going down this road simply for the tax revenue. i think that s the wrong idea, wrong headedness. on the other hand, i have a very aggressive program for recreation of a second chance at society. in connecticut, we tripled our prison population between 1985 and 2008. and it really was not in our best interest, i think, in many ways. we ended up with many, many people having, not only a criminal record and a felony record, but being incarcerated, which makes education, housing
legal and allowing for easier sale, perhaps cause more people to use the substance, which quite frankly, i don t think is good for people except under certain circumstances. are you persuadable on that? i guess my question is we re doing this very rare thing, where we re conducting these live realtime experiments, you have states taking a radical policy departure, and i wonder whether you and other fellow governors and legislators are thinking about this in an impir cal sense of what happens in colorado and washington? i suppose you never say never, right? but the early work doesn t convince me yet, and i m not convinced, based on everything i m seeing and hearing and i don t think states should be going down this road simply for the tax revenue. i think that s the wrong idea wrong headedness. on the other hand, i have a very aggressive program for recreation of a second chance at society.