Out for Bad Behavior
Ed Forchion is a cancer patient who gets medical marijuana from California. He was arrested in New Jersey for possessing a pound of that marijuana. While his case worked through the courts, New Jersey legalized medical marijuana, but Forchion was still convicted and sentenced to nine months in jail. “What am I being corrected on?” he asks. “The state already legalized medical marijuana. I’m a medical marijuana patient. This is punishment for being outspoken and right.” But the judge isn’t heartless: Forchion is still allowed to treat his cancer pain medically by being released for 10 days each month to fly to California to smoke his medical marijuana. (MS/Trenton Trentonian) ...You don’t have to be stoned to understand the logic of his sentence — but it might help.Original Publication Date: 16 February 2014
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
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