By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
Voters will once again be asked to add an additional tax on marijuana as part of the August 8th ballot.
When recreational marijuana was passed in November, local governments were given options to ask voters for a three-percent tax.
Buchanan County Presiding Commissioner Scott Nelson says asking county voters to add the tax only made sense.
"State passed it in November, city passed it overwhelmingly in April, and we're just going to jump on the train in that regard," Nelson tells sit in host Tommy Rezac on the KFEQ Hotline. "And it's a stackable thing, city stacks on top of the state, and county will stack on top of that."
Nelson says to him adding the tax is logical.
"If you're going to pay extra for cigarettes, you're going to pay extra for fuel, we're going to put that on," Nelson explains. "There will be no campaign, to me that's logical and makes sense, so that's going to be on there."
Nelson says there still are questions to be answered before he can determine how much revenue the tax will generate and what it will go towards.
"We don't believe that there's any dispensaries outside city limits, we don't know that there's any dispensaries in the county, I don't know that" Nelson says. "And I don't know that since the city is within the county do we get that benefit at the same time, those are legal questions but we're just covering ourselves."