The city of Colorado Springs is on pace to collect more than $500,000 in sales tax revenue from the medical marijuana industry by the end of the year.
The October sales of medical marijuana and marijuana-infused products generated $56,782 in sales tax revenue for the city, according to figures released today by the city’s Sales Tax Department.
To date, the city has collected $436,330 in sales tax revenue from medical marijuana.
The city has been collecting more than $50,000 in sales tax revenue from the medical marijuana industry for the past five consecutive months.
Talk about a growth industry.
The city collected $73,504 total in sales tax revenue from pot in all of 2009.
I put my two cents worth in about this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ONvFvzvAwM
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[...] Springs alone brought in $500k in tax revenue from medical marijuana in 2010. State-wide, the tax revenue from medical marijuana was $2.2 [...]