'NJ Weedman' Welcomes His Arrest On Marijuana Charges
Ed Forchion doesn't deny it. There was a pound of marijuana — "high-grade California Kush" — in the trunk of his rent-a-wreck when he was stopped in Mount Holly on Thursday night by a state trooper.
The dreadlocked Rastafarian, better known as "NJ Weedman," who ran unsuccessfully for New Jersey governor and U.S. and state representative on the Marijuana Party ticket, was released from the Burlington County jail on Tuesday after posting $50,000 bail on drug possession and distribution charges.
He did not intend to be arrested, said Forchion, 45. "But now that I've been charged, it feels like destiny. That's exactly what I wanted to do."
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