Martin A Lee is the co-founder and director of Project CBD (projectcbd.org), an educational service focusing on cannabis science and therapeutics. He is the author of several books, including Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana – Medical, Recreational and Scientific (Scribner, 2013). The American Botanical Council gave Smoke Signals its James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award. Named by High Times as one of the 100 most influential people in cannabis, Lee is a recipient of the Emerald Cup's lifetime achievement award. He is also co-founder of the media watch group FAIR (fair.org) and the co-author of Acid Dreams, a social history of LSD (Grove Press 1986).