Higher Learning: Colorado County Mulls Scholarship Pot Tax

DENVER (AP) — Talk about higher learning. A Colorado county may create the world’s first public college scholarship program funded with marijuana money.
Pueblo County is considering a 5 percent excise tax on marijuana growers, with half the proceeds designated to a scholarship fund that boosters say would be the first of its kind.
The southern Colorado county has more square footage of recreational marijuana growing than any other county in the state. Pueblo allows growing outside an