February 25, 2019 - Cannabis & Tech Today

California Cannabis Revenue Won’t Pay for Youth Programs… Yet

In this Oct. 20, 2018, file photo, a customer takes a sniff test from the selection of marijuana strains at Miyagi LA booth at the cannabis-themed Kushstock Festival at Adelanto, Calif. When California voters broadly legalized marijuana in 2016, they were promised that part of the tax revenue from pot sales would be devoted to programs to teach youth how to avoid substance abuse and "prevent harm" from marijuana use. But more than a year after the start of sales, there's no money for those programs and looming questions about how they might operate in the future. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Part of California’s tax revenue from pot sales was to be devoted to youth programs. A year in and there’s still no money for those programs.