Colorado has had to refund residents six times since the enactment of the law. Now, it appears that residents of Colorado may be receiving their share of a $30-$50 Million refund.  This is due to the 1992 constitutional amendment named Taxpayer’s Bill Of Rights, which states that all newly imposed taxes are required to be voted on by taxpayers. More importantly, there is a cap placed on the amount of tax revenue Colorado is permitted to collect, and in that event, the state is obligated to refund the excess revenue to taxpayers.

So what’s the problem?  Now that the state government already possesses the excess tax revenue, elected officials belonging to Democratic and Republican parties want the state to keep the cash.

“I think it’s appropriate that we keep the money for marijuana that the voters said that we should,” said Republican Senate President Bill Cadman. “This is a little bit of a different animal. There’s a struggle on this one,” added Sen. Kevin Grantham, one of the Republican budget writers.

Lawmakers say they want to put the additional revenue into drug education and police training. Though according to the Denver police chief, “everything is fine” one year after the state’s legalization efforts.

Watch the report from Denver’s local television station: