Let's see, selling a half a million barrels of oil per day cost the State over $700 million last year (that's 3/4 of a billion out of the State Treasury) due to the current corporate welfare program. So it seems that pot has generated something in the neighborhood of over $800 million more in the first two months than oil did last year. Not only has it replaced oil, it has exceeded it.

Not that pot is generating a great deal of revenue, but we're losing our asses selling $10 billion worth of oil every year. 

Therein lies the problem.