New Jersey’s most determined advocate of marijuana, who actually changed his named to NJWeedman.com, announced today that he’s about to be indicted for mailing pot to Gov. Chris Christie.
Weedman, whose real name in Ed Forchion, made the disclosure two days
before he’s supposed to go on trial in Burlington County on marijuana
distribution charges.
“My
jaw is dropping,” a spokesman for the governor said after the long
pause that followed word from the reoprter on what Forchion admitted in a
telephone call to The Trentonian.
Forchion, who hails from Pemberton Township, also has long criticized
the court for using his drug cases to block his access to his children.
He said earlier today that he mailed Christie medicinal marijuana from
California, where he had landed the seemingly perfect job for him,
manager of a pot clinic.
But
last time Forchion came east he allegedly was found carrying a large
load of dope and got busted. He often represents himself and argues for
“jury nullification,” in which the jury tosses a case as bad law.
That’s
a rarity, of course, but the last time Forchion tried the tactic, a
case in which he ultimately took a plea deal, he was allowed to poll the
jurors and found four of them would have let him free as an innocent
man because they believed the marijuana laws were unjust.
That total would have won Forchion a mistrial and it would have been
up to the prosecutor as to whether or not they would try him again. It
would take a unanimous decision by all 12 jurors for nullification,
which, if achieved, could set a precedent for other similar cases to be
thrown out.
It's been bad year for awesome dude
Edward Forchion. Not only did his request to change his name to
"NJWeedMan.com" get denied (thanks, Obama), but the packages of weed he sends to NJ Governor Chris Christie aren't getting through!
Forchion told the Philadelphia Inquirer's Matt Katz that he mails a gram of weed a month to Christie plus another 14 public
officials, including the state attorney general. It sounds like a
winning gesture:
The dope, sent from Weedman's home
in California, comes with a letter that misspells Christie's name and
misstates Christie's former law enforcement job, which was U.S.
Attorney. Weedman calls Christie a "fat hypocrite."
Unfortunately, Christie hasn't seen a
single bud. (Or so his spokesman claims.) Too bad! Forchion could use
some powerful friends for his upcoming trial over a pot bust last
year—not that he doesn't have an awesome strategy:
As for the pending trial, Forchion
is representing himself, as he has in the past, and he hopes to pick
pothead jurors using his "pot-dar."
