Work Experience
Stealth Media Startup
Current
Stealth Media Startup
Perfect Blends
Current
Perfect Blends
BHC Consultants - Beverly Hills
2011-06-01 - 2012-01-01
BHC Consultants - Beverly Hills
Sony Pictures Entertainment
2010-06-01 - 2011-01-01
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sony Pictures Entertainment
2005-11-01 - 2007-01-01
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Constant C Productions
1988-06-01 - 2004-09-01
Constant C Productions
New Line Cinema
2003-05-01 - 2003-11-01
New Line Cinema
Sony Pictures Entertainment
2002-08-01 - 2003-06-01
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Rocket Science
1993-01-01 - 1995-01-01
Rocket Science
Skills
Summary
In the late eighties, I shook up the film business by insisting that personal computers would dominate filmmaking and that the digital would triumph over emulsion, despite the exquisite beauty of film. I was derided by some experts, but watched as they slowly went the way of the buggy. I worked throughout the film industry and enjoyed it immensely. But, in one of the great inexplicable moves of my life, I became convinced that the cannabis plant could be a legitimate medicine, because it helped me deal with migraine that had plagued me since childhood. As my scientific understanding of cannabis increased, I came to believe that cannabis could become the first social drug since caffeine to prove a greater good for society. My detour to study a plant has turned out to be the greatest challenge of my life, but I simply love it. The cannabis industry is a bit of a mess, operating within an economic balloon that is overfull, poorly reported and packed with the passionately uninformed. When the smartest guy I know in the industry, Bruce Linton, is summarily executed by his powerful investors, it exemplifies the long, bumpy road ahead. That’s exciting to me. There are tons of innovations and discoveries to be made. I am making quite a few...