Legalization of marijuana benefits schools and decreases crime rate

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11. Colorado’s 2015 Marijuana Tax Results: $135 Million, $35 Million Going to Schools

Oregon is in the first year taxing cannabis. Projections are 43 million first year, about 31 in years going forward (tax rate drops). 25% of that goes to pay for regulating the cannabis market, 40 percent to the state's Common School Fund, 20 percent to mental health, alcoholism and drug services, 15 percent to Oregon State Police, 10 percent for city law enforcement, 10 percent for county law enforcement and 5 percent to the Oregon Health Authority for alcohol and drug abuse prevention, early intervention and treatment services.


So funds schools, funds anti-crime measures. Colorado and Washington have both seen large declines in opiate overdoses, around 25%. This is interesting because mainstream politicians are still opposed to legal cannabis while they say they 'want to find a way to lower opiate overdoses by 15%'. Do they really care to lower overdose rates? Does not really seem that way.