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Two Academy Award winning actors - Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe - face off, then team up in Ridley Scott's American Gangster, which chronicles the life of '60s and '70s Harlem heroin kingpin, Frank Lucas. You'll find pieces of The Godfather, Superfly, GoodFellas, Scarface, The French Connection and Serpico in this sprawling 240-minute dope epic. 
I'm the former editor of High Times magazine. I currently write for Relix, Skunk, Heeb and The L Magazine. I publish the website Celebstoner.com. I'm the author of three books: Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language & Life (2008), co-written with Shirley Halperin; Video Invaders (1982), a history of the video game industry; and Watch Out for the Little Guys (1987), about professional basketball's smallest players. For more info on Pot Culture, go to Potculturebook.com. I produced the benefit albums Hempilation: Freedom Is NORML (1995) and Hempilation 2: Free the Weed (1998). I'm commissioner of the New York Media Softball League. I was born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx, NY. I reside in Brooklyn, NY.
