From the Ouray County Plaindealer:  As the City of Ouray moves closer to putting the question of whether or not to approve retail sales of marijuana within city limits in front of voters, one of the main arguments in favor of legalizing the trade is the added tax dollars. However, as we’ve found is the case in Ridgway, when there are fewer than three retail outlets in a governmental subdivision, the state of Colorado won’t segregate the tax revenue by city or county.

Thus, if you are voting for the tax impact created by selling marijuana, you may never know what that specific impact will be to your town or city.

The State of Colorado, which collects the retail marijuana tax, can give you tax revenue numbers for cities such as Boulder and Denver, and counties such as Garfield, Jefferson, Pitkin and even San Miguel.

According to the state, data derived from taxpayer returns must be combined in order to protect the confidentiality of individual taxpayers. The state will only release data for a local government when there are at least three taxpayers in a given category and none of them represents more than 80% of the total.

Visit the Ouray County Plaindealer for more.