Longtime marijuana legalization activist Ed Forchion (known as the “NJ Weedman”) has filed a forty-four-page federal lawsuit against New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy alleging New Jersey’s voter referendum to legalize weed was a bait-and-switch tactic. In his lawsuit, Weedman alleges that voters were tricked into approving a corporate takeover of New Jersey’s longtime booming underground marijuana market. The case may hinge on whether there is a legal difference between the words “marijuana” and “cannabis.”
Weedman believes that New Jersey’s weed legalization program is a sham designed to enrich a select few of mostly white businessmen and exclude the thousands of people of color in New Jersey’s black market who, like him, have sold weed for decades in the State.
But unlike other black-market weed dealers in New Jersey, Weedman does not hide what he does from the public or law enforcement.
For more than two years, Weedman has been engaging in a unique form of civil disobedience by helping countless people obtain weed.