One Suffolk County town may reverse course when it holds a vote today on whether to opt into the budding legal recreational marijuana industry, nearly four years after it passed on the opportunity.

The Islip Town Board is scheduled to vote this afternoon on amending its 2021 opt-out of the New York Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act. The push for marijuana sparked up earlier this year when several town board members expressed interest in revisiting that original vote.

Like many other communities on Long Island, Islip voted against allowing recreational businesses to open, but supporters of the industry feel the town is leaving valuable tax revenue on the table by sitting on the sidelines while neighboring communities bring in much-needed money.

At a meeting in April, the town board held a contentious public hearing on this topic. Roughly 100 people filled the town hall, many of them urging the town not to opt in.

Opponents raised youth health and community safety concerns.

Islip town residents had mixed feelings today.

"Regulated is better than unregulated, so it's going to be here anyway," Oakdale resident Joe Bontemps said.

"I also don't want to see people smoking marijuana on their way to work," one woman from Islip said.

"I don't think it would bother me," Bohemia's Mary Berduccio said.

The board ultimately voted to table a decision until today.

Islip Town Supervisor Angie Carpenter said she's firmly voting "no."

"I would hope that the other members of the Town Board would listen to the community," she said. "The community has come out in full force in opposition."

The vote is scheduled for 2 p.m. at Islip Town Hall.