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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Pot for potholes? Rep. Dillon wants to legalize, tax marijuana to pay for roads 🌿Pot for potholes? Rep. Dillon wants to legalize, tax marijuana to pay for roads
Legalize marijuana in Michigan and the taxes could help repair roads, educate children and pay for public safety.
Those are some of the reasons Grand Rapids State Representative Brandon Dillon says the time has come to not just "decriminalize" marijuana, but make it legal, available and taxable as it is in a few states like Colorado.
"I think even people who are somewhat uncomfortable with the notion of legalization understand that what we are doing right now is not working," explains Representative Dillon. Continuing to direct precious resources to prosecute people for marijuana offenses is not in anyone's best interests."
The Grand Rapids democrat says he expects the issue will be on the ballot next year in Michigan. And when voters learn how much revenue it would raise he thinks chances are good legal marijuana will pass.
"The revenue from regulating and taxing marijuana is not going to be enough...
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