<ahem, clears throat, sniffs a little>. Let's keep this about numbers..

2017, so far getting tax money from this that is better than 2016 was at this time. 

2016, $1B in 10 months.
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2016/12/13/colorado-billion-legal-marijuana-sales/%3Fsource%3Ddam

2015, meh about $999millionUSD http://www.thecannabist.co/2016/02/09/colorado-marijuana-sales-2015-reach-996-million/47886/

Take it all up. It's more than a billion..All I'm saying. Slowly saying. Is that there is a lot of extra money that came out of nowhere. Just...use it. For...stuff..we...need.