Council members Laurie Huryk and Daniel Rodrick will join local residents on a committee that will discuss whether marijuana businesses should be allowed in the township.
Members of the committee are expected to be appointed Tuesday. The council last week again tabled an ordinance that would bar companies that sell, manufacture or distribute weed from operating in town. The measure is expected to be discussed again — and possibly voted on — at the July 13 council meeting.
Huryk supported legalizing marijuana and has urged the council not to ban weed businesses from town, while Rodrick has said he does not think businesses that sell weed should be allowed in Toms River.
The council agreed to table the weed ordinance last month, after a raucous public hearing at which many residents said the governing body was out of step with what its citizens support.
In Toms River, 63.7% of voters supported last year's ballot measure legalizing weed for adults