Cultivation Consultant, email: todd@growmedicine.org ~ Ten time cancer survivor. Growing indoors since 1984. Currently writing for GROW MAGAZINE - Editor of: THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES by Jack Herer 1994 - 2010, Co-produced and appeared in both THE UNION: THE BUSINESS BEHIND GETTING HIGH 2008 & THE CULTURE HIGH 2014. Author of: HOW TO GROW MEDICAL MARIJUANA 1997, Co-produced MPP fundraisers at the Playboy Mansion 2007, 08 & 09. One of the first federal arrests post 215, for medical cannabis cultivation in 1997, and denied a medical necessity defense in 1999. Self surrendered to five years in federal prison 2000 - 2004. In 2012, I was a Cannabis Culture Award recipient along with Dr Lester Grinspoon and Richard Branson.