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“It’s important that we recognize that sometimes, something is passed and it is incomplete. It is not administrable,” Weiser said during a post-election news conference Wednesday at the Capitol in Denver. “… Anytime you have a ballot measure that is statutory, it is a natural and, I believe, appropriate role for the legislature to say, ‘What are the adjustments that need to be added?’ ” Weiser did not support any of those three measures, which were leading in results as a blue wave delivered major victories to Democrats elsewhere on the ballot. He did not commit to specific actions on any of them, should they officially pass. For the proposal to bar young people from playing on sports teams that don’t match their biological sex, for example, Weiser said: “I don’t believe it would be acceptable to Colorado to have every student athlete to have to go through full-body examinations or other invasions of privacy.” “So we need to figure out what we do given the decisions last night,” he added. He said the fentanyl penalties measure promised more treatment for people with drug addictions, but he feared it would mostly steer people with behavioral health problems into jails and prisons. “We’re going to have to take a long, hard look at what makes sense and make a range of decisions,” Weiser said. “At this point, it’s early for me to get into any specifics.”

NEW: Gov.-elect @PWeiser says fentanyl, trans-related ballot measures will need ‘a long, hard look’ before implementation: "[I]t is a natural and, I believe, appropriate role for the legislature to say, ‘What are the adjustments that need to be added?'" denverpost.com/2026/11/04/ph…