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Colorado weed sales are now generating more than enough money to provide better schools and help eliminate both homelessness and opioid addiction.
Gov. John Hickenlooper on Friday signed a budget bill specifying the programs that will receive money from the state’s “Marijuana Tax Cash Fund,” reports Vice News.
Legal marijuana sales have brought in more than $105 million for the state, which will mainly go towards schools and public health. The new budget distributes $15.3 million in pot taxes towards “permanent supportive housing and rapid re-housing assistance for individuals with behavioral health needs, and for individuals experiencing or at-risk of homelessness.” Another $7.1 million would also be used to “ending the use of jails for holding people who are experiencing a mental health crisis.”
The new budget will also use half a million dollars to fund a pilot program to deploy specially trained physician assistants and nurses to the two counties hit the hardest by prescription painkiller addiction.
It’s unclear as to whether or not the Trump administration will use their resources to interfere with state…
