The government always lies. We were told gambling in my county would lower property taxes. The sheeple actually believed it.
Increases in revenue, even if it is only a one-time surge, are penciled in for all time as a permanent source. Then, when the bootleggers and cheat artists get in the game, selling UNTAXED product at a discount price, the revenue inevitably shrinks.
Then it has to be made up somewhere else. The fiscally responsible action would be to REDUCE expenditure, but most councils, boards and legislatures are hard-wired not to take that route.
A marijuana DUI law is in effect in Colorado which sets a legal limit for the amount of active THC in your system while driving. The legal limit is 5 nanograms per milliliter of blood.
One out of every 8 DUI arrests in Colorado now is for marijuana impaired driving.