Jeff Oaks of Oceanport urged the council to reconsider the ban. Yet, advocates for legalization argued passionately for the benefits to new businesses and personal liberty.
"It (the bill) was written by the cannabis industry … certainly not for the citizens of Brick Township," Zapcic said.
She said New Jersey would be the only state to legalize recreational marijuana use and sales but not allow residents to grow plants at home. Watch Video: NJ marijuana legalization: Murphy and legislators reach deal "If a town does not opt out, you're automatically in, and you're in for five years," said Zapcic. "And in five years, if you decide to opt out, the businesses that have come in in those five years are grandfathered." NJ marijuana legalization: Phil Murphy, legislators announce legal weed deal vote coming?īrick officials estimated that marijuana sales could only generate up to $100,000 for the township - too little to justify extra municipal costs needed to collect the sales taxes. New Jersey would tax legal marijuana at a flat rate of $42 per ounce, imposed on cultivators growing the cannabis plant. Local municipalities would be eligible to receive tax revenue from legal weed if they allow marijuana businesses in their town - 3 percent in municipalities with a legal weed dispensary 2 percent in municipalities with a marijuana cultivation or manufacturing facility and 1 percent in municipalities with a wholesaler. "The state's going to do pretty good (in terms of recreational marijuana taxes)," she told an audience that filled the municipal chambers, where the six-member council voted on the ordinance. "But there is nothing in that bill that earmarks that money to come back to our schools, or to come back to law enforcement, or to come back to anything we need."
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