Unused tax$ for vets & public defenders being w/held sabotages programs. Expecting pub def attorney stay @ $65k sal after expensive schooling puts them in debt 2decades, they leave = ppl get bad representation from turnover, higher incarnation, etc • Missouri Independent https://share.google/cVq4l9SsAxSqHhXJ2
Nearly $100M in Missouri marijuana tax revenue sits unused despite voter mandate • Missouri Independent

About $95 million in Missouri marijuana-tax revenue for veterans services, public defenders and drug-addiction treatment programs sat unspent at the end of the last fiscal year.

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But studies show for every $1 spent on rehabilitation & prevention saves govt $7 from rehabilitated ppl paying taxes & working instead of drug war & incarceration costs. #LegalizeIt for damn sakes