re: Five years later, Colorado sees toll of pot legalization

This is a great site to check out state revenue growth by year and compare it to other states. Put in Colorado, then put in your state and look at growth over the last 5 years.

This tells you one side of the impact of legalization that Colorado has recognized.

Fiscal 50: State Trending

To summarize...growth dwarfs the national average over that time, and out paces ever state that I tried it against over that period (I haven't checked every state individually yet).