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The mythical story of Max Gold begins in the early '60s against the background of various progressive political movements: Civil Rights, Equal Rights, the war in Vietnam, and the growing movement that spread nationwide on college campuses, the Brotherhood of Smoke - cannabis smoke that is. And, Max was at the proverbial right place at the right time, with enough chutzpah and entrepreneurial ambition to become a marijuana man. The young student realizes the economical potential of the magic green weed.

It would take a perfect storm in time to create the need, the money, and the politics that would create in the 1860s the birth of the Sicilian Mafia. It will take a perfect plan by Don Leonardo La Barbra to save his ancient family's estate and business from his weak son and his twin uncles who now control it all. A bred male for a near-impossible job was trained from birth to be a solder, analytical thinker, and to be a fearless leader in any situation.