New Jersey health officials are reviewing 146 applications to open up to six new medical marijuana dispensaries statewide.
Phillipsburg officials want one of them to be in town.
Town council last week passed a resolution calling residents' access to medical marijuana "challenged" and requesting the state give "strong consideration for those northwestern Delaware River communities like Phillipsburg" to get a dispensary license.
Council also approved, on the first of two readings, zoning regulations saying where a medical marijuana alternative treatment center may be located in town.