David Bienenstock is a writer, editor and digital film director currently employed as a Senior Editor at High Times magazine in New York City. The author of The Official High Times Pot Smoker's Handbook (Chronicle Books, 2008) has traveled around the world to write about cannabis sativa, interviewing rock stars, scientists, growers, dealers, prisoners, politicians and philosophers, while covering everything from the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam to the biggest pot fields in Vancouver, Canada. He also directed the best selling marijuana cultivation DVD of all time (Jorge Cervantes' Ultimate Grow), and its sequel, shot on location in Spain.

He has been published in Salon, Wall of Sound, and Icon, has appeared as a guest on nationally syndicated radio, and has been interviewed by national and international publications.