Colorado town 1st in state to pass medical-marijuana sales tax
Voters in the western Colorado town of Fruita on Tuesday approved a 5 percent sales tax on medical marijuana and related paraphernalia, making it the first city in Colorado to tax pot.
Fruita ― an agricultural community located west of Grand Junction near the Utah border ― doesn't yet have any medical-marijuana dispensaries, which have proliferated in Denver over the past year.
The tax will go into effect on May 1. City officials expect it to raise about $100,000 in the first full fiscal year, despite the current lack of dispensaries, according to the ballot issue.
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