This is the story and documentation used to advance legislation to legalize industrial hemp in Arizona all the way to the... More > Governors desk, only to be vetoed by then Governor Jane D. Hull. < Less

COOL MADNESS, The Trial of Dr. Mollie Fry and Dale Schafer is the riveting true story of a medical marijuana doctor... More > undergoing a federal trial for the first time in history. The main character of Cool Madness is Dr. Marion “Mollie” Fry, a cancer survivor who learned about the benefits of medical marijuana while enduring chemotherapy and a double mastectomy. After recovering, Dr. Fry set up a practice in the small northern California town of Cool and began recommending medical marijuana to her patients in accordance with state law. However, California’s medical marijuana laws are not recognized by the federal government, and this legal conflict put Dr. Fry’s activities under the scrutiny of authorities. Law enforcement surveillance on her home led to a raid that netted a meager 34-plant garden in September 2001. < Less

Memoirs of the Legendary CANNABIS COWBOY is an action packed story about the adventures of Robert G. Schmidt as a marijuana... More > smuggler in the 70's and 80's and then as the head proprietor of Genesis 1:29, a medical cannabis dispensary in northern California.
With a family history of "rum runners" that used wooden speed boats to bring Canadian booze into Prohibition era America, Robert's career begins with helping draft dodgers escape the Vietnam war and soon escalates into international excitement and danger smuggling tons of marijuana.
The riches gained during high-flying early years are lost to betrayal and prison. After a time in the grip of drug and alcohol abuse romance brings stability that is soon interrupted by a new law that allows medical cannabis use in California.
Ex-marijuana smuggler Robert establishes Genesis 1:29 to grow and distribute medical cannabis and for a time business booms. Expansion of growing operations to a ranch in Sebastopol leads to a DEA raid on September 12, 2002 < Less

In 2003 former "High Times" columnist Ed Rosenthal was convicted for growing and distributing medical marijuana, an activity... More > legal under California law, but illegal under federal law. The jurors, who were prevented from hearing about California law, staged a revolt after learning that they had convicted a medical grower. Their public outrage matched the response of the activist community and pressured the judge into handing down a remarkably light sentence of just one day in jail, time Ed had already served. Coming 4 years after the original guilty verdict, the re-trial packs a heavier punch than ever before. During repeated outbursts in the courtroom, the loquacious defendant alternately ridicules his prosecutor and demands that his judge step down from the bench. The bombast becomes infectious, and soon everyone is speaking his mind in court, from outraged prospective jurors to righteous witnesses who refuse to testify. By the end, even the defense attorneys are threatened with jail time for contempt < Less

This is the story and documentation used to advance legislation to legalize industrial hemp in Arizona all the way to the... More > Governors desk, only to be vetoed by then Governor Jane D. Hull. < Less

COOL MADNESS, The Trial of Dr. Mollie Fry and Dale Schafer is the riveting true story of a medical marijuana doctor... More > undergoing a federal trial for the first time in history. The main character of Cool Madness is Dr. Marion “Mollie” Fry, a cancer survivor who learned about the benefits of medical marijuana while enduring chemotherapy and a double mastectomy. After recovering, Dr. Fry set up a practice in the small northern California town of Cool and began recommending medical marijuana to her patients in accordance with state law. However, California’s medical marijuana laws are not recognized by the federal government, and this legal conflict put Dr. Fry’s activities under the scrutiny of authorities. Law enforcement surveillance on her home led to a raid that netted a meager 34-plant garden in September 2001. < Less

This is the story and documentation used to advance legislation to legalize industrial hemp in Arizona all the way to the... More > Governors desk, only to be vetoed by then Governor Jane D. Hull. < Less

Memoirs of the Legendary CANNABIS COWBOY is an action packed story about the adventures of Robert G. Schmidt as a marijuana... More > smuggler in the 70's and 80's and then as the head proprietor of Genesis 1:29, a medical cannabis dispensary in northern California.
With a family history of "rum runners" that used wooden speed boats to bring Canadian booze into Prohibition era America, Robert's career begins with helping draft dodgers escape the Vietnam war and soon escalates into international excitement and danger smuggling tons of marijuana.
The riches gained during high-flying early years are lost to betrayal and prison. After a time in the grip of drug and alcohol abuse romance brings stability that is soon interrupted by a new law that allows medical cannabis use in California.
Ex-marijuana smuggler Robert establishes Genesis 1:29 to grow and distribute medical cannabis and for a time business booms. Expansion of growing operations to a ranch in Sebastopol leads to a DEA raid on September 12, 2002 < Less

In 2003 former "High Times" columnist Ed Rosenthal was convicted for growing and distributing medical marijuana, an activity... More > legal under California law, but illegal under federal law. The jurors, who were prevented from hearing about California law, staged a revolt after learning that they had convicted a medical grower. Their public outrage matched the response of the activist community and pressured the judge into handing down a remarkably light sentence of just one day in jail, time Ed had already served. Coming 4 years after the original guilty verdict, the re-trial packs a heavier punch than ever before. During repeated outbursts in the courtroom, the loquacious defendant alternately ridicules his prosecutor and demands that his judge step down from the bench. The bombast becomes infectious, and soon everyone is speaking his mind in court, from outraged prospective jurors to righteous witnesses who refuse to testify. By the end, even the defense attorneys are threatened with jail time for contempt < Less