Cook County passes additional 3-percent tax on recreational marijuana: report
"Ghost train haze" marijuana buds are weighed for a customer on the first day of recreational marijuana sales at New England Treatment Access in Brookline, MA on March 23, 2013. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images / Getty Images)
CHICAGO - Recreational marijuana will soon cost you even more in Chicago.
According to the Sun-Times, the Cook County Board of Commissioners passed an added 3-percent tax on the now-legal drug. That means taxes will surpass 40-percent on marijuana sold in Chicago come July.
No word how much money it will bring the city.
In the first five days of legal weed, Illinois raked in nearly $11-million.