In a 5-1 vote, the Haines Borough Assembly repealed the $5-per-ounce excise tax on marijuana in an unconventional way, by reducing the tax to $0 per ounce, and will soon consider an ordinance that would ask voters if they want a special sales tax on retail marijuana.
The borough hasn’t collected any marijuana taxes on cultivators because staff were confused as to whether or not the assembly wanted to tax only local growers, or all…