The Haines Borough Assembly advanced two ordinances placing excise taxes on marijuana and tobacco.
The marijuana excise tax amounts to $5 on each ounce of marijuana sold from the cultivator. The tobacco tax would charge $2 per pack of cigarettes brought or transported into the Haines Borough and 45 percent of the wholesale price on other tobacco products.
Assembly member Heather Lende made an amendment to increase the marijuana excise tax to $20. “The major…
