Gretchen Whitmer: “Marijuana will probably bring in some substantial money into…”

“It's true. You know, I had people more often than not ask me, can marijuana taxes fix the roads? And the, you know, Marijuana will probably bring in some substantial money into the state, but, you know, 10 million, 100 million, that's a drop in the bucket when your problem is 2.5 billion annually over 10 years. Exactly. Yeah. Well, thank you for taking the time to do this and explain it and especially for being so kind and understanding to the MDOT workers who take a lot of the abuse and the brunt for the condition of the roads.” (10:38–10:54)

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