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Colorado is making big money off marijuana sales, over $105 million in tax revenue for fiscal year 2016-17. That revenue is going into a "Marijuana Tax Cash Fund" that's being allocated a few different ways (as reported by Vice). Arguably the most meaningful, and exemplary for other states to...

"The secret history of the heroin crisis," Don Winslow writes at Esquire, is rooted in marijuana legalization. Specifically, Winslow claims that because marijuana legalization in Colorado and other states depleted drug cartels' revenues - by pushing marijuana out of the black market - the...