Joplin marijuana sales tax robust

Marijuana sales have been going well in Joplin.  

What are the plans for the sales tax?  

Joplin Mayor Keenan Cortez told Newstalk KZRG

“That tax is being collected and distributed across what is called many accounts in our city. It’s not being collected and hoarded over here for one purpose or one use. It’s being spread out over all the other things. It is pretty robust.  We have blown away our estimates for what we will collect in the first year.”

Currently, there are no plans to use the marijuana sales tax to lower other collected taxes in Joplin.