Scholarships!

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Legalized recreational marijuana strikes again! Here in Colorado, Pueblo County has been putting the tax revenue from legal weed to good use, awarding college scholarships to high school students on an annual basis. This year, the county has given 563 scholarships to local kids, a total of $624,000. When we voted in favor of legalized marijuana here in the state, the stipulation was that the money would be used for education, and much of that revenue has gone, unnoticed, towards improving schools in rural areas, where the school districts have smaller budgets. (City's that allow the sale of the product usually tack on a city tax and use that money for other things.) The anti-marijauna crowd, of course, is crying foul, flooding Facebook with comments about how pot money should be used for everything BUT education (as if sending kids to college is such a bad thing. But then again, this is a voting block that is anti-science and against education in general. After all, uneducated people are easily controlled.) The citizens of Colorado Springs are the worst, routinely complaining that the city receives no marijuana revenue, despite the fact that our ultra-conservative City Council blocked the sale of recreational marijuana within the city, and therefore, is not eligible for any revenue derived from the booming industry. The cannabis war rages on! Congratulations to those 563 students! (Photo by me)