Marijuana activist NJ Weedman seriously injured in motorcycle clash

Ed “Nj Weedman” Forchion, the former defender of marijuana, was seriously injured last weekend when a truck crashed with his motorcycle in Trenton.

Forchion live transmitted the sequelae of the shock On Facebook, while he was lying on the ground surrounded by remains and while the city’s emst treated him. He was taken to a hospital, where he continued publishing videos.

Subsequently, the police issued the truck driver, a 51 -year -old resident from Elmhursst, New York, driving tickets, not yielding at an intersection and not stopping or giving in, police spokeswoman said Captain Lisette Rios.

Ríos said that Forchion was traveling eastward along South Clinton Avenue towards the intersection with Roebling Avenue when the truck, which was traveling south by Roebling, did not yield to the Forchion motorcycle at the intersection.

The Forchion motorcycle hit the right rear tire area of ​​the truck, Ríos said.

He Posted on Facebook on Tuesday that suffered spinal fractures and three ribs.

Forchion operates the NJ Weedman joint Front of the City Council at East State Streetwhich has been its base of operations for years. Marijuana sold from the restaurant for years and took out the anger of the City Police and the County Prosecutor’s Office, even take time in jail Waiting for the trial for the positions that were later dismissed.

When New Jersey embraced the legal guns of marijuana, Forchion also did, but his license to sell marijuana is in limbo with state authorities because a family member currently has a license, officials said.

The City Council in Trenton approved a resolution at the end of 2023 Supporting your license before the Nueva Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission.

However, at the end of 2024 Forchion sued the city in a federal courtstating that officials were blocking their efforts to become a legitimate weed concessionaire. In response, sometimes it shone in a Batman care center in the City Council in protest.

The city has denied that it is blocking Forchion’s attempts to obtain a marijuana license. The case is pending.