Ed Forchion, aka NJ Weedman, in front of his store Weedman’s Joint, in Trenton, is not a fan of the term cannabis.
It’s more than just semantics.
Aside from people with doctor’s recommendations for medical marijuana, there is no place in New Jersey to buy “regulated cannabis” yet.
“All forms of the substance that are not regulated cannabis or medical cannabis are treated as ‘marijuana’ or ‘hashish.’ Under the new laws, marijuana and hashish are still defined as ‘controlled dangerous substances’ under N.J.S.A.
“I think that it’s kind of weird how they’re doing that,” said Ed Grimes of the organization Sativa Cross, which advocates for access to medical marijuana.
But it is also the much, much older name for the substance, which has been used and cultivated both for its fibers and its effects dating to prehistory.
Cannabis advocates see that as a root of some issues with marijuana enforcement, which saw widely disproportionate numbers of arrests and convictions in minority communities.
Forchion sought to get marijuana legalized for decades.
Cheeba shows up in early rap songs, while long before that, jazz musicians called it gage, he added.
In the East, that’s mostly known in reference to the Snoop Dogg classic “Gin and Juice,” while Dr.
Forchion cited names like loud and skunk, references to the potent aroma of a premium strain, or Reggie, for regular weed, which is getting harder to find as the high-test varieties become readily available.
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“I refuse to use the word cannabis, most of the time.