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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 State marijuana taxes dribble in for a handful of Colorado Springs area school districts 🌿State marijuana taxes dribble in for a handful of Colorado Springs area school districts
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Three local projects are among the 26 statewide that are receiving funding.
Another three area school districts and a charter school will get a check in the mail next week from a $2.28 million appropriation from state marijuana sales taxes to pay for behavioral health counseling and drug prevention education.
But many districts say they have little hope of seeing any of the collections.
"Wherever I go, it's the No. 1 comment I hear, 'When I voted for pot, I thought I was helping schools.' They don't realize how small a drop in the bucket it is and how hard we have to compete for it," said Glenn Gustafson, deputy superintendent and chief financial officer for Colorado Springs School District 11.
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