Pima County brings in $2.4M in marijuana tax revenue, about same as Tucson | local news

So, when the county receives its apportionment dollars of state sales tax revenue, it’s receiving an (estimated) proportional amount for sales in the entire county, not just for dispensaries in unincorporated areas.

“The state shared sales tax portion is an estimate of Pima County’s share of the state sales tax collected from all adult use marijuana dispensaries statewide,” Lesher explained.

The county received more than $565,000 in state sales tax revenue, which will be deposited into the general fund and used for general fund purposes, according to Lesher.

Lesher said excise tax dollars from marijuana sales go to the county health department, sheriff’s department and the county’s transportation fund — about $200,000, $795,000, and $800,000, respectively.

Jon Udell, a Scottsdale attorney and political director for the Arizona branch of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML, explained how excise tax dollars are split up. Referring to Prop. 207 he said “that’s the statute that governs the Smart and Safe Arizona Fund, establishing it and allocating money from it.”

The Smart and Safe Arizona Fund was established when voters passed Prop. 207 approving recreational marijuana use in November 2020. It is funded exclusively by excise tax dollars raised from those marijuana sales.

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