Should the Haines Borough target only local marijuana growers with its new excise tax? Assembly members are split.

The borough currently levies a $5 per ounce excise tax on “marijuana that is sold or transferred from a marijuana cultivation facility to a retail marijuana store or marijuana product manufacturing facility.”

Haines Borough manager Debra Schnabel requested clarification from the assembly last month on whether or not the assembly intended to place an excise tax only…