Okay, can we agree that it's weak tea to try to argue 'will of the voters' about this issue? 'Will of the voters' works with the assumption that of the 56% yes vote on 502, all voters gave equal credence to two factors: legalization and use of taxation. Wouldn't it be more likely that the former was more heavily favored than the latter? It also assumes that there exist a % of no-voters who voted no, not because they weren't okay with legalization, but because they disagreed with the use of expected tax revenue.

I need to do more research before I could decide how I feel about the Republican attempt to reappropriate the taxation, but I agree with @2 that funding education needs to be done with tax revenue that is fungible. Colorado expected $118 million in tax revenue and only got $69 million. From the report today that a gram's down to half of what it was last summer and there's a possible surplus on the horizon, the revenue the state does take in is gonna vary on huge margins.