 Going back to the 1930s, there was a rare and brave academic at Indiana University, a sociologist, named Alfred Lindesmith, who became the first prominent scholar to challenge conventional thinking about drug use and drug policy. For that, he was investigated by the Feral Bureau of Narcotics. He was given problems in his university, but he persisted nonetheless. And when I left Princeton to start this institute in the first place, I named it after him, the Lindesmith Center. This award, the Lindesmith Award, a recognized scholarship. I've asked somebody who received this award years ago, Professor Craig Reinerman, co-author of Crackin America, remarkable drug scholar to come up here and present this to the recipient. Thank you, Ethan. It's a great honor and pleasure to introduce Dr. Robin Ruhm as the recipient of the Lindesmith Award. It's impossible to summarize his body of work. His resume and list of publications runs to about 35 pages. It's not an eight-point font like he has it. And these include, just briefly, being the author or co-author of about 25 books by my account. And if I could read the eight-point font here, I'd give you a few titles. Alcohol and Injuries, Drug Policy in the Public, Good, Cannabis Policy, A Cannabis Reader, let's see, Alcohol, Gender and Drinking Problems, the Effect of Nordic Alcohol Policies, Disability and Culture, it goes on and on and on. In addition to this, he is the author of about 75 chapters in other people's books and over 300 articles in scholarly and scientific journals. Now, roughly, for those of you who don't work in academia, that's enough for about five or six careers. He has been the editor of various journals and the director and the senior scientist at the Alcohol Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley, Vice President for Research and Chief Scientist at the Addiction Research Foundation of Canada and a Professor of Public Health and Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Professor and Director of the Center for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs at the University of Stockholm, Professor and Director of the Center for Social Alcohol Research at the University of Melbourne. Robin has created a set of remarkable research programs that created the kind of intellectual space in which it was possible to ask challenging questions continually on a huge range of drug policy questions and always bringing to bear beautifully crafted intellectual work, scientific evidence, it appears propaganda and undue myths and enrich the conversation about harm reduction. So, and last but not least, maybe most importantly, he has in five countries on three continents for 50 years, he has mentored dozens and dozens of young scholars in the drug and alcohol field, including myself, Harry Levine Denise Hurd, Jerry Beck, you heard a minute ago, and many, many others. So please help me congratulate the recipient of the 2015 Linda Smith Award, a brilliant scholar, a generous mentor and all-round mensch, Robin Ruhm. I'm a sociologist who has worked in drugs, alcohol, and gambling studies for over half a century, as Craig was just telling you. Let it be a lesson to her, a caution to young scholars that I came into the field for a two-month summer job. I became a sociologist because I wanted to understand social change and how it happened. I'd been active in the student movement in Berkeley in the early 60s and wanted to understand why social change was so hard, why it was so difficult. In the student movement at Berkeley, I thought of myself sometimes as a bureaucrat of the revolution, someone who kept the mailing lists and the newsletters going between the demonstrations and the meetings. In the drug field in recent years, maybe I've had a similar role to be concerned with the nitty-gritty details of what an reformed system would look like. It seemed to us about five years ago that in order to move beyond the stalemate in drug policy internationally, we needed at a minimum to put forward the concrete mechanics of what an alternative future in drug policy looked like. And Craig was just talking about a couple of those studies. You can find them also listed in the program. The main ones were done under the Auspices of the Berkeley Foundation and had some money from the Open Society Foundation. When we did this work, at times it seemed a little bit like a what if science fiction exercise. In tonight's perspective, it seems much closer to being of real use as we move towards defining new realities, though we certainly have far to go still down the road of reform. In my own long career in the field, working so far in five countries, as Craig mentioned, I've had joy, support, and benefit from working with numerous collaborators, colleagues, and friends, both in my own research group and internationally. Our field is unusual in the strong tradition of cross-national collaborative scholarship. It has been true in my generation and it is true also for younger generations that our links have been both near sitting on the steps between our offices in Berkeley with the likes of Jerry Beck and Harry Levine and Craig Reidemann and Roger Rothman and far reaching across time zones and across continents. And I'm grateful for and honored by this award but I also recognize how much what is honored is the product of those collectivities and collaborations. Thank you.