 Arizona’s community college district are seeing the benefits of legalized recreational marijuana. The voter initiative that had legalized recreational marijuana, Prop 207, had stated that 1/3 of the excise tax received would be set aside for community colleges. 2021 was the first year for recreational marijuana sales in the state, and the state close to 100 million dollars in excise tax for the year.
The Arizona Republic reports that the community colleges for the state were recipients over $31 million dollars, which was split between the 10 school districts. Community college officials said they plan to use the $31 million dollars in marijuana tax money in a range of ways, including to expand public safety programming, add new career training initiatives and help fund construction projects. The rest of the excise tax that the state received was mostly used for public safety departments, transportation, health and criminal justice programs. The Arizona Dept of Revenue reported 2021 recreational marijuana sales at nearly $650 million dollars, and medical usage sales were $758 million dollars .The state benefited by receiving tax revenue from all marijuana sales, to the tune of about $218 million dollars in 2021. Comments are closed.
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