The only statewide issue on November’s ballot is an easy call — vote “yes.”

Now, if you’re a licensed pot cultivator or a regular retail marijuana consumer, you might consider a “no” vote for a moment or two, for reasons we’ll see, but after that your sense of civic engagement should kick in, too.

Proposition BB asks voters for permission for the state to retain and spend $66.1 million of tax revenue that already was collected from retail marijuana sales.

If the measure fails, the state will refund the money. Specifically, $25 million would go back to Colorado residents (an average of $8 per taxpayer), $24 million would be refunded to retail marijuana cultivators and $17.1 million would be given to people who buy retail pot through a temporary reduction in the sales tax.

The matter is on the table because the state underestimated the amount of revenue that would be subject to constitutional spending limits before the 2013 vote to approve excise and sales taxes on pot.

Under the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, also known as TABOR, when revenue exceeds the estimate, the money must be refunded unless voters allow the state to spend it.

Were the state allowed to keep the revenue, $40 million would be spent on school construction and $12 million would be spent on various state programs; the remainder has yet to be allocated.

Of that $12 million, programs that would be funded include marijuana education and prevention, bullying prevention, dropout prevention, youth mentoring services and poison control.

In a nutshell, the money kept by the state would be directed at doing a lot of good.

If the proposition fails, more than 60 percent of that revenue would go to marijuana buyers and the industry. And state taxpayers, as we said, would get $8 each. Whoop dee do.

Let Colorado keep the $66.1 million to plow some of it into programs created to address some of the possible impacts of marijuana legalization.

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