Democrat candidate for mayor Ben Giovine said if he is elected mayor of Toms River in November, he will push to overturn a 2021 ban on the sale of legal marijuana in Toms River. The Toms River Township Council voted against allowing weed businesses to operate within the town.
Giovine said the township would benefit from the sale of legal marijuana in the community, pumping the township coffers with more money.
“It’s a risk we do not need to be taking,” MacArthur told reporters at the event at Herman Costello Lyceum Hall. “I understand marijuana may have a medical use and I’m certainly OK with using it in that context. But we’re in the middle of the worst drug crisis in history and you want to legalize more drugs.”
The Republican lawmaker has made tackling the opioid addiction crisis one of his top priorities in Congress, and his work on the issue has also become a focus of his campaign for a third term representing the 3rd Congressional District.