Scutari, D-22nd District, is one of the state Legislature’s key advocates for legalizing recreational marijuana and a primary sponsor of the 120-page bill. He told NJBIZ on Thursday that he still believes New Jersey’s cannabis tax rate can be the “lowest in the country.”
Different drafts of the bill have called for a tax rate as low as 10 percent, or for the rate to be increased to 25 percent over a four-year period. Scutari said lawmakers have not agreed on a formal rate.