They came to the Statehouse wearing marijuana leaves on their clothes, with buttons and T-shirts and fiery testimony about the "failed drug war."
But when legislators cleared the bill to legalize weed in New Jersey — the first real step taken toward marijuana legalization? Many of the state's most ardent and longest-running activists were left wanting more.
"I've been in prison and, for the last 20 years, I've been advocating for the legalization of cannabis," said Ed Forchion, the longtime legal weed advocate known mostly as N.J. Weedman. "But this bill doesn't go far enough."
Forchion was one of just many longtime New Jersey legal weed activists who identified one or more missing pieces in the legislation approved by the Senate and Assembly budget committees on Monday.