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SUMMER OF LSD INSPIRED DOCTOR'S 40-YEAR MISSION

To legalize or not to legalize? The question of marijuana's safety, its impacts on society and its potential as a government revenue source has probably never been so hotly debated in the mainstream of public opinion.  We've been waging war on the drug trade for decades, and what has it gotten us? Prisons full of drug users and street-corner dealers, an ever-increasing enforcement bill that cuts deeply into other services, and a murderous drug cartel to the south that threatens to turn Mexico into a full-blown narco state.  Today, even "respectable" people feel the burden of those hard truths. 

Dr.  David E.  Smith certainly does.  And, as a person uniquely and intimately qualified to talk about the social, medical and spiritual ramifications of illicit drugs' widespread use, his is a worthwhile voice. 

Smith is a physician.  He's a toxicologist.  He's a philanthropist.  He's a nonprofit executive.  He's a stoner -- well, a reformed stoner who can tell portions of his life story against a backdrop of firsthand dope-smoking and LSD-dropping experiences. 

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