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“Next time you go to jail, David, ask for a kosher meal. They have to give it to you, and the food is better.” This was the advice that Diane Goldstein, a retired police officer, gave to David Bronner, an activist in the movement to legalize marijuana, over dinner one night at an Upper East Side organic vegan restaurant.

Bronner, an athletic-looking forty-two-year-old with a ponytail, has been locked up three times (once for planting hemp seeds on the Drug Enforcement Administration’s lawn). Until recently, he was the president of Dr. Bronner’s Soaps, the company that his German-immigrant grandfather founded, in 1948, after escaping from an Illinois mental institution. Bronner now calls himself C.E.O., for Cosmic Engagement Officer. Last year, the company sold ninety-five million dollars’ worth of products, including that minty liquid soap, packaged in a big plastic bottle, whose ransom-note-style label, in the seventies, touted the stuff’s efficacy...

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