Senate President Steve Sweeney on Thursday said that efforts to lobby members of his caucus who are resistant to or undecided on legalized marijuana have not begun.
“Well, we don’t have a final bill yet,” Sweeney said. “So, once we have a final bill, that’s when we’ll actually start to lobby.”
Sweeney and Gov. Phil Murphy have reached a rough framework on a legalized marijuana, but they still face the same hurdles in the state Senate that they did when they attempted to pass a marijuana legalization bill some months ago.
They don’t have the 21 votes they need in the legislature’s upper chamber.
Though Democrats control 26 of the Senate’s 40 seats, a number of the caucus’s members oppose marijuana legalization outright.