Dr. Dave Hepburn is an award-winning syndicated columnist featured in several major newspapers across the United States and Canada, and is a recipient of the prestigious Canadian Community Newspaper Association columnist of the year award. He was a Canadian naval surgeon in the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and served as the doctor for the Pacific fleet for three years. Amongst the growing number of media physicians educated about cannabinoid medicine, he is an member of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians, International Association for Cannabinoid Medicines, the Canadian Consortium for the Investigation of Cannabinoids, and Physicians for Medical Cannabis.