Sin taxes are suffering from a shortage of sinners

I'm always surprised at how "little" the use of the taxes for marijuana have made an impact. Either it's being grossly managed, or there's just not as much sales from mary jane as I would have expected.

As an Oregonian, I wish I could see the benefits of it locally. We have at least a half dozen weed shops in my town, vastly outnumbering any other category of business, and yet my kids literally couldn't go to school one day last week because the district "doesn't have enough money to staff the buildings."

I know it's a bit of an unfair complaint, but these are the things I start wondering about when we can't even keep our schools open. Where is the money going?

Maybe there isn't that much money in it? The stuff does "grow on trees" after all.

There might be lots of weed stores for the same reason antique stores and cigarette shops proliferate - they're cheap to set up.