You know I believe that when we voted for the ordinance regarding marijuana that we said that we would treat marijuana just like alcohol and therefor the taxes should be the same.

I’ll be voting yes on that because the marijuana industry, once they got it on the ballot, and we started dealing with our own regulations, they made it very clear that they would like for marijuana to be treated the same as alcohol, and that’s what we’re doing in our appeal process. And I think it’s only right to treat them the same on the tax level, so I’ll be voting yes on that.

I will vote yes on that, because it is something that we do for alcohol and it seems to me that that should be a similar way. I think marijuana has a potential of having extra costs to us as a city, and we should probably have enough money to cover those costs.

I think that was the intent of the, I’m not sure it’s the ballot measure, but that was the intent when we went through this legalization process for marijuana, that it be treated like alcohol. So my answer is yes, I think we should tax it at the same rate that we tax alcohol. The intent again was to treat it as if it were alcohol and it would be regulated in such a manner. So it makes sense to do so.

No. Not until they have 10 businesses … in the assembly. They have only two businesses. Make sure they have 10 businesses. Then if they want to get the 3 percent, that’s fine.

The marijuana industry itself has said to treat it like alcohol, so I think it’s appropriate to tax it like alcohol.