Mass Cannabis tax revenue. not going where it was intended.
I'm sure our readers are tired of me writing about pot and the failure of our elected leaders to abide by the will of the voter, but I had to write about this:
The Globe reports that the excise tax revenue from pot sales (81 million) would be split between 5 causes, public health, public safety, municipal police training, illness prevention and assistance for communities hit hard by the drug war. The law is vague in how the money is divided up among all 5 and it appears that most of the money is going to the state's Bureau of Substance Addiction Services, including treatment for the uninsured, criminal defendants and impaired-driving offenders.
Like the gas tax and cigarette tax which was supposed to go to specific causes like road repair and tobacco cessation programs, part of the pot excise tax that was ear marked for communities ravaged by the drug war is being used elsewhere.
posted by Jim Pillsbury @ 1:53 PM
4 Comments
4 Comments:
Shameful. Who do we contact to get this money to go where we want it to go? What are orgaizations like Force right here in Framingham doing about this?
Has Framingham gotten any money yet from the medical shop that has been here for a year? If so, where exactly in the Framingham budget has that money gone?
It's a Beacon Hill issue... our local pols have no influence on where and how the money is distributed.
Good question on Temascal... the company did agree to pay the Ham up to 500,000 of their sales. I have asked George and he wasn't familiar with the deal. Mary Ellen has indicated that any marijuana revenue would go into local receipts, but I'm not sure that is so. It will be up to Finance Sub Committee to dig deeper and find out where any of the money has gone already.
Did you ever get an answer from anyone on where that money from Temascal is going? Why so hard to find that out? Sounds suspicious to me
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