California: If marijuana is legalized, where would $1 billion in pot money go?
After covering administrative costs, here are some uses for the remaining tax revenue if voters approve Prop. 64:
• $10 million, increasing to $50 million annually by 2022, for grants to local health departments and nonprofits that support addiction treatment, job placement, mental health treatment and other services for communities hard-hit by previous drug policies.
• $2 million annually to the UC San Diego Center for Medical Cannabis Research to study marijuana as medicine.
The remaining revenue will be divvied up to include:
• 60 percent to prevent young people from abusing substances by offering grants to schools and county health programs, funding treatment programs, helping at-risk youth and more. Estimated at $450 million or more a year.
Starting in 2028, legislators could funnel revenue to other programs. But they could never reduce the dollar amount going to youth programs, environmental agencies or law enforcement.
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