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Jodi Emerson: “Other states around the country have gotten some huge tax…”

Featuring: Jodi Emerson, Democratic | Wisconsin State Assembly, District 91

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Campaign 2018: Jodi Emerson (D) Candidate for 91st AD

Published | Video Starts at 08:40

Once you start looking into issues, you realize sometimes that you're uncovering more problems than you're solving if you just take the simple way out. I have no problem with it being decriminalized and legalized. Certainly Other states around the country have gotten some huge tax benefits from taxing marijuana. And with our roads falling apart, with our schools constantly looking at referendums, with all kinds of issues that we have in this state for funding, I certainly would be interested in taxing something like marijuana and seeing what we could do with it. (08:40–08:48)

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Asserts that states have received significant tax revenue from marijuana taxation.

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