The Benefit of The Colorado Deferred Judgment And Sentence. The direct benefit of the deferred judgment is certainty. The DA no longer has control over your life â the judge and the jury lose control over your future. You are in control and a dismissal of the charges is a very tempting goal.
Six months of legal retail marijuana sales have generated $21.8 million in tax revenue plus another $10.1 million in taxes on medical marijuana in that time period (see Table 1). [6] For the new fiscal year that began July 1, 2014, state analysts project $30.6 million in revenue.
That's nearly twice what the state raked in from alcohol tax revenue during that same time. In the United States, sales of legal marijuana hit $2.7 billion last year, up from $1.5 billion in 2013, according to cannabis investment and research firm ArcView Group.