Mike Johnston in 2020 CO Senatorial race

On Drugs: Focus on treatment for addiction, not criminalization

He hopes to decriminalize drug addiction and open more drug and mental health courts. "This is just a good financial solution for the state," Johnston explained, "you take people that have drug addiction or mental health issues, you put them in treatment, they both have a much higher chance for getting better and would save the states hundreds of millions of dollars." Source: Denver Post on 2020 Colorado Senate race Jun 25, 2018

On Principles & Values: Reached out to local church after S.C. shootings

A white lawmaker's decision to put a letter on the door of a black church in response to the South Carolina shooting and then write about it on Facebook has touched a nerve. "By Sunday morning America could blanket these churches with such overwhelming expressions of love that no one could walk through the doors of an AME church without feeling a flood of love and support from white men whose names they don't know, whose faces they can't place, but whose love they can't ignore," he wrote. Source: Denver Post on 2020 Colorado Senate race Jun 18, 2015

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