The tax $$ aren’t all that great. What? $50 million, $100 million. Big deal. Probably less than half a percent of the general revenue for the state.
We have a summer place in southern Colorado in the San Luis valley. Beautiful 14’s there. However people are moving in and squatting all over the place. Everyone wants a piece of the action. Wonder what all these extra people are actually costing the state. How much of the windfall is going to the schools, the food, the medical these people require.
Yeah the author talks about it like a new silicon valley just opened up the spouts off about chump change. Aurora is building a freeway overpass with the money? How much you want to bet the freeway overpass costs them 5 times the amount the author listed and the city basically lied to the taxpayers that the pot revenue would pay for it. What government project doesn't have cost overruns.
Look I'm all for the legalization of marijuana but if you want to sell me on the money it brings in, it would have to account for half the state budget before I thought you had an argument.