Joe Tate was a carefree 16 year old in 1969, growing up in a small midwestern town, when his best friend was sent away to reform school as a result of Marijuana possession. Joe was shocked because Pot was something you could only find on college campuses, he thought. The drug-culture exploded on the scene soon after Joe's initial encounter with Marijuana and though some of his close friends smoked it, he abstained until after his High School Graduation in 1971. Throughout the tumultuous '70's when drug-abuse reached epidemic proportions, Joe abused drugs such as Marijuana and Amphetamines in...