The Federal Bar Association of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut urged that 2 percent of new federal liquor taxes go for temperance education – from page 301 of Tax on Intoxicating Liquor, Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, 73d Congress, Interim, 1st and 2d Sessions (Dec. 11-14, 1933). (Carryover page says “of Education.”)
The economic conditions of the Depression did not allow that diversion of revenue. But some of Washington State’s tax on marijuana does go for temperance education.
The Center for New Revenue 