John Hicks

Drug Policy

Full legalization of medical and recreational cannabis for adult personal use, distribution, and growing. Avoid the mistakes of the 3-tier alcohol model that restricts freedom. Learn more

Follow the Illinois model to automatically give clemency for cannabis convictions for people who were non-violent. Learn more

Education

All current teachers will have the option to cash out the present value of your pension. Learn more

All current teachers will have the option to convert to a standard 401k, based on the present value of their contribution. Learn more

Government Reform

Kentucky should adopt this Ranked Choice Voting system Learn more

We merely need to move to larger, multi-member districts for legislative races (combining that with ranked-choice voting). (This system is generally called Single Transferable Voting (STV)) Learn more

Taxes / Budget

If you are currently a teacher and like your pension, you can keep your pension. Period. Full Stop. We will use the $1,000,000,000 of revenue per year Colorado model to secure the teacher retirement system. Learn more

Colorado has been able to raise $1 billion a year in Cannabis revenue. They achieved this with a 15% excise tax on the sale of marijuana from a cultivator to a retailer. In addition, Colorado has a 15% sales tax on retail sales to customers Learn more

Stopping the high-fee, high-risk hedge funds that pay themselves before teachers After decades of underfunding by Democrats and recent high fee hedge funds by Democrats and Republicans, the teachers pension is dangerously underfunded. Given the importance of our teachers' pension fund, it is time to move to the low fee index funds that pays the greatest portion of the investments back to the teachers. Learn more