Jury-Nullification Gets Accused Pot Dealer Off the Hook

Personally, I am no pot-head. So in that respect this case has no bearing on me personally one way or the other. I am not over here smoked-out mumbling "right on man, right on" and applauding this as a victory for marijuana smokers.

However, I do believe that the war on drugs is a terrible waste of resources, and is more damaging than the drugs themselves. Even when it comes to harder drugs, other than marijuana, I believe in decriminalization. 

I also believe that a jury has not only the right, but the duty to return an acquittal, regardless of the facts, when they see a law as unjust or being improperly applied.

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What is Jury Nullification?

... if you are a stranger to the concept.

NJWeedman found not guilty in pot distribution case


MOUNT HOLLY — Ed “NJWeedman” Forchion hopes the not-guilty verdict a Burlington County jury rendered in his pot distribution trial plants a seed for other medical marijuana patients and sparks a change in the law.

“I think other patients should argue the same points. They can call it the ‘Weedman defense,’ ” he said after a jury of 10 women and two men returned the verdict Thursday following an hourlong deliberation that ended the three-day trial. “The law is wrong. My jury heard that and understood that.”


Forchion, who claims dual residency in Pemberton Township and Los Angeles, was acquitted of possession with the intent to distribute a pound of marijuana that police found in his trunk during a traffic stop on April 1, 2010, in Mount Holly.

The state contended that the sheer volume in Forchion’s possession and the $2,000 in cash he had in his pocket at the time of his arrest were tell-tale signs of distribution, despite the absence of other packaging paraphernalia.

Forchion has maintained that he is no drug dealer. He brought the marijuana from California, where he is a licensed medical marijuana patient, for his own use while on a trip to New Jersey to visit his family, he claimed.

“I don’t use it the way the state says. To me, it’s medicine, it’s food,” Forchion said in his closing argument, noting for the jury that he had been eating pot-laced cookies throughout the trial. “I feel I’m the victim of a flawed law.”

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NJ “Weedman” found not guilty in jury nullification victory

With few options left for people to protect themselves from the ever growing police state, an old and long forgotten aspect of constitutional law is making a huge comeback, and becoming very popular in cases where people are facing jail time for nonviolent offenses.

This reemerging defense is the act of jury nullification, which is basically the right for any juror to not only judge the facts of the case, but to also actually judge the validity of the law itself. This means that if a jury feels that a defendant is facing an unjust charge they actually have the right to rule in their favor even if they are technically guilty.

Ed Forchion is a medical cannabis user and cancer patient known as the “NJ weedman”. Ed claims dual residency in Pemberton Township, New Jersey and Los Angeles, California. Due to his residency in California he has a prescription for Cannabis and is legally allowed to grow and consume the plant in that state.

However, he is not legally allowed to possess the plant in the state of New Jersey and unfortunately while in New Jersey on April 1, 2012 Forchion was stopped by police and found with a pound of cannabis and $2,000, enough to get slapped with a distribution charge.

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http://www.activistpost.com/2012/10/nj-weedman-found-not-guilty-in-jury.html

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Denver Airport Mysteries

The Denver International Airport is certainly a creepy place for anyone who is the least-bit observant. Having been there myself, I can say that it does not give off the same "creepy vibe" as some old decrepit and abandoned asylum on a stormy night, but instead, the creepiness becomes surreal when you see very eerie things in such a clean, open, well-lit and modern place.

On first arrival, the place feels almost soothing. The air is fresh, the view across the plateau a blank canvas, the building itself clean and bathed in sunlight. But on second glance, what really is the design of the building itself? It's not exactly sleek, or modern as one might expect for such a new, expensive, state-of-the-art international airport. The roof is a haphazard jumble of white tent peaks. Artistic architectural expression? Perhaps, but it doesn't appear to be either pretty nor efficient for a mile-high city.

Odd design is not so much of a big deal though, in most cases. But there is much more to take a closer look at. If you arrive over-land to catch a flight out, rather than arriving on an inbound flight, you will be greeted by a very creepy statue on the front lawn. A person I was visiting there in Colorado falsely stated that it was "the Denver Bronco." I knew better, but it just goes to show how people can simply overlook or justify the things they see, without understanding them in the least. The things that are hidden in plain sight.

The statue is a giant, emaciated, anatomically correct male mustang, painted in shining cobalt blue with glowing red eyes. Many have equated it with the "pale" horse, or the horse of Death, the last of the Four Horses of the Apocalypse. That theory becomes much more believable when you see that the end of the world is a recurring theme in the artwork within the airport itself, as you shall see below. It also became the literal truth for the artist who created the bizarre monument, when he was crushed to death by a 9,000 piece of the statue during construction.

But all of this is just scratching the surface. Literally perhaps, as there are vast underground tunnels and rumors of a secret underground base. But let's go ahead now, and have a look at another article on the subject here at Vigilant Citizen:

Sinister Sites - The Denver International Airport

We also have this segment from Jesse Ventura's conspiracy television show, followed by a conversation about the topic on Coast to Coast AM:







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FDR's 'Economic Bill of Rights' Speech

The following is an excerpt taken from a speech by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Congress, January 1944:

We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.” People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.


In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.


Among these are:


The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;


The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;


The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;


The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;


The right of every family to a decent home;


The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;


The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;


The right to a good education.


All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.


America’s own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for our citizens.