The state’s top three elected officials plan to meet Thursday in an effort to hammer out a legal cannabis bill, Gov. Phil Murphy said during Wednesday night’s “Ask Governor Murphy” program which aired jointly on the WNYC, WHYY and WBGO radio station.
Thursday’s meeting between Murphy, Senate President Stephen Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin D-19th District, comes as the governor’s soft May deadline for a legalization bill fast approaches.
Declining to elaborate, Murphy said that there would be minor “tweaks” to the legislation—which had enough votes to pass the Assembly’s 41-member threshold during a March attempt, but lacked the support to overcome the 21-member threshold in the Senate.