30 Facts About Ed Forchion

Ed Forchion is the founder of the Legalize Marijuana Party.

Ed Forchion has been arrested and convicted for some of his activities and has mounted various legal defenses and challenges to laws regarding cannabis.

Ed Forchion held a hunger strike for nearly two weeks while being held without bail, calling himself a political prisoner.

Ed Forchion was born in Camden, New Jersey, in 1964 and grew up in the Sicklerville section of Winslow Township, New Jersey.

Ed Forchion is a resident of Browns Mills in Pemberton Township, New Jersey.

Ed Forchion graduated from Edgewood Regional High School in 1982 and attended Claflin College.

Ed Forchion was a member of the New Jersey National Guard and United States Marine Corps.

Ed Forchion owned and operated a trucking business - Ed Forchion Trucking.

Ed Forchion is a Rastafarian and has been using cannabis since he was a teen, in 2001 he was diagnosed with tumors in his knees and shoulders, which later become cancerous.

Ed Forchion is a registered medical cannabis user in California.

Ed Forchion is a father of five children and is twice divorced.

Ed Forchion has attempted to have his name legally changed to NJWeedman.

Ed Forchion has been arrested several times and has mounted many legal challenges to his arrest and trials.

Ed Forchion was arrested for "intent to distribute" on November 24,1997, in Bellmawr, New Jersey.

Ed Forchion accepted a plea bargain for a 10-year state prison sentence in September 2000.

State authorities claimed he violated terms of probation by filming several public service announcements advocating changes to New Jersey's drug laws and Ed Forchion was held in jail.

In 2010 Ed Forchion was arrested in Mount Holly, New Jersey, after a traffic stop.

Ed Forchion was charged with possession with intent to distribute and convicted of possession and sentenced to two years probation and a $2,500 fine.

Ed Forchion was allowed out of custody intermittently to go to California for treatment of bone tumours.

Ed Forchion was arrested April 15,2013, in Evesham Township, New Jersey, for possession.

Ed Forchion was arrested on various charges in Trenton in 2016.

On March 3,2017, Ed Forchion was arrested and charged with second-degree witness tampering and third-degree witness tampering.

Ed Forchion was ordered to be held without bail; his appeal for release was denied.

Ed Forchion was placed in pre-trial detention at the Mercer County Correction Center in Hopewell, New Jersey.

In July 2017, Ed Forchion made a motion to review his detention saying that his attorney had misrepresented him and that material evidence would clarify that his intentions would not qualify as witness tampering.

Ed Forchion established the New Jersey Legalize Marijuana Party in 1998.

Ed Forchion has opened two temples, named Liberty Bell Temple II and Liberty Bell Temple III, which have been connected to adjacent restaurant lounges.

In September 2020, during one of his political campaigns for New Jersey public office and the legalization of marijuana on the ballot, Ed Forchion started his potcast, Get On The Cannabus, on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube.

Ed Forchion has appeared in various television programs and documentaries including a filming version of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, How Weed Won the West by Kevin Booth, 1000 Ways to Die: Fatal Distractions, Supreme Court of Comedy: Tony Rock vs Harland Williams and Million Mask Movement by Vinu Joseph.

Ed Forchion has spoken for various podcasts and radio programs.