It's not just a healthy drug, it's the cure for EVERYTHING!!----Some seek to legalize, tax pot to help state, communities

Some seek to legalize, tax pot to help state, communities
....Yet state and federal lawmakers are loathe to raise taxes.(HUH?!!)
Enter marijuana.
Coast to coast, there's green glowing in the eyes of those who'd reap tax bonanzas from marijuana, and it's not from the pot.
It's from the color of money.
"Let's face it — this is one of the last places, aside from printing money, that we're going to find more money" for government spending, said Matt Marsden, spokesman for a Pontiac-based group of Republicans called the Michigan Cannabis Coalition.
The group hopes to start circulating petitions by June calling for the legalization of marijuana, said Marsden, 41, of Clarkston.
The Pontiac coalition is one of three groups pushing ballot proposals to legalize marijuana in Michigan.
Each is aiming for the November 2016 election, and each is hyping the tax dollars they'd collect.
In a sign of changing political times, two of the three groups are driven by Republicans, traditionally not the ones who push for new taxes.
..."Our proposal is not about pot. 
It's about the revenue and jobs that are going to be created," said Marsden, a former legislative staffer for Republican state and congressional lawmakers.
To that end, the group he represents calls its proposal the Michigan Cannabis Control and Revenue Act.
...The coalition would earmark revenue for "three specific areas of the budget — education, public safety and public health," he said...