Recreational marijuana users who frequent the Kansas City Cannabis dispensary in Excelsior Springs, or any future dispensaries in town, may soon have to pay a city sales tax.

The Excelsior Springs City Council unanimously approved an ordinance Tuesday night — which would be placed on the ballot for voter approval —to enact a 3-percent sales tax “on all tangible personal property retail sales of adult use non-medical marijuana” purchased in town. Per the ordinance, the proposed tax was to be filed as Question 1 by 5 p.m. Jan. 24 in Clay and Ray counties, the two counties where Excelsior Springs is located, in order to appear on the April 4 ballot.

The proposed tax is permitted under Amendment 3, the state constitutional amendment approved in November by Missourians to legalize recreational marijuana, City Manager Molly McGovern stated in a Jan. 11 memo to city leaders and reiterated shortly before the vote. It’s also part of a trend McGovern is noticing.

“I’m seeing, on a daily basis, the …