NJ legalized weed but left out black market pot dealers. Now, they want in.
This isn’t legal.
Recreational marijuana, as of last week, is legal in New Jersey, but what Ed Forchion is pulling off at his restaurant on East State Street — or, rather, down the alley and behind the restaurant — is something entirely different.
On a recent day, a dozen or more people were crammed into a small hallway behind NJ Weedman’s Joint, the restaurant bearing the moniker he's worn as a legal weed advocate the last 20 years. Forchion's customers hunched over to peer into a glass case filled with individual jars of marijuana flower.