At just 17 years old, Richard Wershe Jr., aka “White Boy Rick,” was sentenced to prison in 1987 for possessing cocaine — after the FBI had been using him as an informant to infiltrate drug gangs since he was only 14.
Last year, Wershe was released for good behavior after more than three decades behind bars, and he now finds himself in a new world where attitudes about drug possession are changing, including in Michigan, where marijuana has been legalized.
And now, Wershe is entering Michigan’s cannabis industry.
He’s calling his new brand “The 8th,” a double entendre that both refers to a standard measurement for pot but also to the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits “cruel and unusual” punishment — a pointed reference to his own imprisonment, and those of many others.
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