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Only six days are left before a planned vote in the state Legislature on a bill to legalize recreational marijuana in New Jersey. But with the clock ticking, Gov. Phil Murphy and other state leaders continue to scramble to convince enough lawmakers to support the proposal.

Murphy said Tuesday that he and his fellow Democrats who lead the Legislature “still have a ways to go" to gather enough votes for the measure to pass Monday.

“We’re working the phones hard,” the governor said at an unrelated news conference in Maplewood. “We all have to pull our weight. I have no reason to believe we all are not, but it’s gonna be an all-in."

“It’s gonna take a village to get this one done,” Murphy said.

The comments came a day after committees in both houses of the Democratic-controlled Legislature — the state Senate and Assembly — advanced the bill, which would legalize, tax, and regulate marijuana for those 21 and older in the Garden State.

At the same time Monday, Murphy finally answered the pleas of top lawmakers and ramped up phone calls to state lawmakers either against the plan or on the fence in an attempt to whip up their support.

Leaders are hoping for both the Senate and Assembly to hold full votes Monday. Each chamber needs to pass the measure before Murphy could sign it into law.

If they can’t gather enough votes by then, it’s likely a vote won’t happen until at least after the November elections.

Two sources familiar with the situation told NJ Advance Media on Tuesday the Assembly appears on pace to gather the 41 votes needed for the bill to pass the lower house.

It’s less certain in the Senate, though two other sources said "there’s a path” to the 21 votes needed. The Senate is currently at least five Democratic votes short.

Murphy on Tuesday refused to identify which Democrats in the Senate are “no votes.”

“I won’t get into specific names,” the governor said.

State Senate President Stephen Sweeney admitted Tuesday that getting to 21 in the Senate will be tough.

“This was not going to be an easy one,” Sweeney, D-Gloucester, told NJ Advance Media. “I’m counting on the governor to help. He has a hell of a lot more things to attract people than we do.”

Two sources said it’s likely the Senate will need Republicans to come on board.

“It’s only Tuesday,” one source said. “We’re climbing."

Murphy has expressed doubts about using “transactional politics” to whip votes — in other words, trading something, such as more funding for local projects, to convince lawmakers to back the bill.

“Folks are asking for things that I would like as well that are not achievable at the moment,” the governor said Tuesday.

Instead, Murphy has stressed his argument that legalization is the right thing to do, not only to tax marijuana but to improve the state’s social justice system.

“That’s the choice we have," he said. "The status quo — if you want to leave your kids exposed, marijuana is not going away, the bad guys will run the business — versus regulate it, 21 and up, undo decades of social injustices, put the business into the hands of the good guys and gals. It’s a black and white decision to me.”

Murphy and top Democratic lawmakers have been pushing for more than a year to legalize marijuana, both to raise tax revenue and improve social justice. Recent polls show a majority of New Jerseyans support legal pot.

But lawmakers from both major political parties have been leery, fearing legalizing the drug is a slippery slope.

NJ Advance Media staff writer Larry Higgs contributed to this report.

Brent Johnson may be reached at bjohnson@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @johnsb01.

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