The grass is greener in Colorado. According to figures released Monday by the Department of Revenue, the state collected more than $3.5 million in taxes and fees from marijuana sales in January, when it was legalized. More than $2 million came from recreational pot, the rest from medicinal marijuana.
Fifty-nine businesses filed a tax return for recreational pot in January, but by mid-February Colorado had 163 retail stores. Voters had approved a 15 percent excise tax on producers and a 10 percent special sales tax on consumers.
Gov. John Hickenlooper predicted that total pot sales would reach $610 million next fiscal year, and that revenue from taxes and fees would reach $98 million-above earlier estimates of $70 million. Read more at USA Today.
{Andy Heller-Matzav.com Newscenter}
Blowing smoke has pay off. But really, who wants to be snuffed out by their own ignorance just to fill the coffers of the state? It is a dream of the poorer in spirit and not the holier in form. To smoke pot is to assume you have no forum for your mind. And I for one do not wish to be in the urge of poverty for my own future. No thanks.
New Meaning to the song: “Rocky Mountain High…Colorado”
Lets be real. Everyone everywhere is doing pot. So let the Governmrnt make a few dollars to pay for welfare and such other ‘freebies’.
Whats so bad.
Man, I’m in the wrong business!