It's good, because you can avoid all taxes by growing your own.

But it comes with free Frogurt

> It's bad, because people spend way too much time thinking about it.

This is actually the thing I hate about pot, stoners won't shut up about it.

The usual shell game when pegging a new tax to education is that whatever old funds for education get pulled, and simply replaced with the new tax money.

So, if the schools were getting $3 million in subsidy before, they peg the pot taxes to schools, pull the previous $3 million to go to different pet projects, and the schools see (at best) a 0% change.

Tying marijuana taxes to education does somewhat lock the education budget in, so there's maybe an advantage, but generally speaking, it's a political move, because then you can paste anyone voting against whatever law as someone who is voting against education.

If I recall, most if not all the money was tagged for schools. Doing a quick search, it looks like CO made $76 million off MJ taxes in 2014. The new high school in Northfield I believe has a construction budget of around $50 million. That's one high school in a state with 644 high schools, not to mention all the middle and elementary schools. And that's not counting the schools that just need major work done. Denver in particular has many aging schools that need things like new boilers or central air or capital investments like a STEM/STEAM lab.

It seems like a lot of money, but when you look at what costs they're trying to cover, it doesn't go very far.