Jersey City doesn’t have any cannabis dispensaries yet, but the City Council will review an ordinance this week creating a 2% tax on medicinal marijuana sales.

While legislation legalizing recreational marijuana has stalled in Trenton, state law allows municipalities to levy a tax of up to 2% on medical marijuana sales. Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop tweeted over the weekend that the tax revenue generated from such sales would be directed toward affordable housing efforts in the city.

“Mayor Fulop has been a vocal supporter of marijuana legalization with taxes benefiting the local municipalities,” Jersey City spokeswoman Kimberly Wallace-Scalcione said.

The City Council ordinance establishing the tax is up for introduction Wednesday.

Hoboken adopted a 2% tax last summer. Harmony Dispensary won approval in August for a dispensary on Hudson Street, and at least two other companies want to open stores in the Mile Square City.

Hudson County localities are being eyed as likely hubs for marijuana sales once the state legislature finalizes retail standards. The dispensaries in Hoboken would be walking distance from the PATH station, which is one stop away from Manhattan.

While there aren’t any dispensaries yet in Jersey City, four are in the pipeline, Wallace-Scalcione said. The Jersey City Redevelopment Agency approved plans for one of those projects — a cultivation facility and dispensary near Liberty State Park — in late 2019.

Jersey City Council members James Solomon and Rolando Lavarro have said they want tax revenue from recreational marijuana sales to be funneled to the public schools, which are facing an estimated $300 million budget shortfall. It’s an idea the mayor said he supports, and Saturday he tweeted that revenue from medicinal sales should go to the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund.

But affordable housing can be tackled in other ways, Solomon said in an interview Monday. The 2% tax the council is reviewing should also be routed to the schools, he added.

“I think that there are many, many good uses for this type of money but we do have a school funding crisis,” he said. “We’ve got to really be kind of creative and thoughtful.”

Councilman Yousef Saleh said he thinks medicinal marijuana will sell for less than recreational.

“I also think medical marijuana sales tax should go to affordable housing as that’s a big issue, and recreational will probably bring in more funds and should go to schools,” he said.