Ed Forchion, the cannabis activist and storefront dealer better known as N.J. Weedman, is calling for the state to license illicit dealers like himself:
NJ.com
- The state’s amendment only legalizes “a controlled form of marijuana called ‘cannabis.”
NJ.com - Semantics aside, Forchion wants the dealers like himself, from the traditional market, to be welcomed into the state’s new REC regime.
- “They’re trying to eliminate the black market?” Forchion said. “Well, the black market ain’t going nowhere.’
- “The only way to eliminate the black market, he said, is to let the current dealers sell pot legally. Forchion said he and his fellow dealers would be glad to collect the tax, which would add only about $3 to the price of the typical eighth-ounce bags he sells for $40.”
Quick Hit
- Merry Jane put together an interesting two minute video on Hollywood’s tortured relationship with weed, from 1934 to the present.
