The governor's promise to legalize the use of recreational marijuana has made residents across the state call for towns to ban it. But Brick officials said they wanted to hold off on making any decisions until there was some clear information on where the state was headed on the topic.
Town officials have apparently decided the time to act is now: an ordinance is on the agenda for a first reading at Tuesday's Township Council meeting to ban recreational marijuana in the Brick.
Full details on the proposed ordinance were not immediately available, but the title indicates it would ban "the retail sale, cultivation, manufacturing and testing of marijuana products for recreational use" in the township.
The issue has been heated in Brick Township in recent months, amid the controversy over a proposal to turn the former Ocean First bank on Adamston Road into a medical marijuana dispensary.