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'''Robert Edward Forchion''' (b. [[July 23]], [[1964]]), also known as '''NJWEEDMAN''', is an [[African-American]] [[cannabis]] activist and a perennial candidate for various [[New Jersey]] elected offices.  Most recently, Forchion ran for [[Governor]] of New Jersey in 2005, losing to Democratic candidate [[Jon Corzine]]. Forchion identifies himself as a member of the [[US Marijuana Party]] and campaigns primarily on the single issue of [[cannabis]] legalization.  Forchion has done various stunts to bring attention to cannabis legalization, including smoking cannabis in front of the [[Liberty Bell]] in [[Philadelphia]], as well as attempting to legally change his name to NJWeedman.com.

==Life before politics and activism==
At the age of 15, Forchion smoked his first marijuana cigarette and was "immediately impressed by its medical healing powers, in regard to  his asthma."[http://www.njweedman.com/bio_ed_forchion.html] By age 18 he was a regular user of marijuana, and he dismissed the [[Surgeon General of the United States|Surgeon General]] claims of it's harms as "propaganda and Christian Superstitions".   

In 1982 upon graduation from [[Edgewood Senior High School]], Atco N.J. he enlisted in the New Jersey National Guard and enrolled at Claflin College, Orangeburg S.C.. In [[1986]] he received an [[Military discharge#Honorable|honorable discharge]] from the NJ National Guard and enlisted in the [[United States Marine Corps]] without marijuana, he had an asthma attack and was medically discharged. After being discharged from the [[Marine Corps]], he changed his name to Edward and enlisted in the [[United States Army]]. While in the army he used cannabis despite the warnings from the government, to control his asthma. On [[April 18]], [[1988]] he married his first wife Pam in [[Fort Bliss|Fort Bliss, Texas]], and in 1990 he receive an honorable discharge from the army. He became a coast-to-coast trucker using his own truck he purchased in [[1994]].

He proudly admits he was a "marijuana smuggler", driving hundreds of pounds of cannabis from Arizona border towns to east coast cities such as [[Cleveland, Ohio]], Philadelphia, [[New York City]] and Camden, New Jersey. His Mexican suppliers in Arizonia were the first to dub him Jersey Weedman, because while other drugs were available for transport he only wanted to transport cannabis.

(contracted; show full)*[http://www.njweedman.com Home page of NJWEEDMAN]
*[http://www.state.nj.us/lps/elections/electionshome.html New Jersey Division of Elections]

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[[Category:Cannabis activists]]
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