Ed Forchion

Ed Forchion (born Robert Edward Forchion, Jr., July 23, 1964), also known as NJWeedman, is an American Rastafari cannabis rights and free speech activist, frequent candidate for public office, actor, writer, and restaurateur.

A resident of New Jersey and California, he is a registered medical cannabis user. He has been arrested and convicted for some of his activities and has mounted various legal defenses and challenges to laws regarding cannabis.

Forchion was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1964 and grew up in Sicklerville. He graduated from Edgewood Regional High School in 1982 and attended Claflin College (1983-1984). He was a member of the New Jersey National Guard (1982-1984) and United States Marine Corp (1986). He is a resident of Browns Mills in Pemberton Township, New Jersey. He owned and operated a trucking business. He is Rastafariian. In 2001 he was diagnosed with tumors in his knees and shoulders, which later become cancerous and uses medical cannabis. He is a registered medical cannabis user in California. Forchion is father of five children and is divorced.

Forchion uses the moniker NJWeedman. He has attempted to have his named legally changed to NJWeedman.com, but was denied, first by the courts in New Jersey in 2004 and in another case in California in 2011, which cited, among other things, comity with NJ's ruling.

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