WEEDMAN off to HOLLYWOOD

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He’s Ed Forchion, aka the NJ Weedman, and the much maligned, often controversial, repeatedly arrested activist and politician says New Jersey won’t have him to kick around any more. In an interview with The Trentonian from his home in Browns Mills, Forchion said he’s headed west to seek out greener pastures and to work for a company called High Ministries, a medical marijuana dispensary in Woodland Hills, Calif.

For those unfamiliar with Forchion’s fortunes over the past few years — he’s run for numerous public offices in the state including a run for the governor’s seat in 2005, running under his own political party “The Legalization of Marijuana Party.” The party’s number one issue — well, you get it.

Forchion is also a practicing rastafarian, a religion that views smoking marijuana as a sacrament.

Once at his new gig, Forchion said he’ll be assigned to, what else, dispense marijuana. “I will be selling marijuana legally,” Forchion said. California has legalized the sale of medical marijuana, though the law has often been challenged in federal courts and federal agents can arrest those engaged in the buying, selling or possessing the drug there. But Forchion said that he’s not too concerned about the legal ramifications out west and said he wished his home state would have taken up his cause and changed its marijuana laws. “This is the example that Jersey politicians should take,” he said. The Weedman said he’s flying out today to start his new job and he’s bidding his old home good riddance. “I’m just tired of living in a police state,” he said of New Jersey.

He said the company he’ll work for in California knew of him from his website, and said they weren’t worried about the controversy surrounding him, but rather saw it as a possible benefit to their operation. “That’s going to be a selling point with me at this place,” he said.

He said his wife and kids are going to stay behind in Jersey for a while and if everything works out, they’ll probably all join him this summer. Forchion said that at least for the time being, he won’t be gone for good. He said he’ll have to come back for a pending court case in Trenton Municipal Court, stemming from an altercation with a state trooper at the State House last year.

“I will have to come back a couple times for my kangaroo court,” he said. He said though that his new employer has helped set him up with an apartment to help ease his transition, and said he’ll be making a very nice living doing something he’s trained nearly his whole life for. “I’m going to be, basically, the marijuana guru,” he said. So for Forchion, who also said he hopes his move to Hollywood could start a new career in show business, it seems his life has come full circle.

“What I’m doing is ironic,” he said. “Basically I became known and all this started because I got busted selling weed. Now I’m going to California and I’m going to do it legally.”

WEEDMAN off to HOLLYWOOD
 
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