Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-3rd District, said he wants the state to phase out its taxes on medical marijuana, eventually eliminating the tax altogether.
“We want to get to the point where we eliminate the tax on medical, so we don’t tax any medical … prescriptions,” Sweeney said at a Wednesday evening segment of NJ101.5’s “Ask the Senate President.”
The 2019 budget calls for $20 million from the expansion of the state’s medicinal marijuana program, which under Gov. Phil Murphy has already expanded to a total of 35,000 patients.