Stephen H. Frye, M.D. earned his medical degree at the George Washington University School of Medicine. After interning, he joined the US Army Special Forces (Green Berets) as a physician during the Vietnam war, and was awarded the Army Commendation Medal.

Dr. Frye then completed his psychiatric residency at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute of the University of California, San Francisco. He then served as Director of Mental Health Services for Sonoma County, California, where he oversaw inpatient and outpatient adult and children’s services, as well as alcohol and addiction treatment. Following his resignation, he founded a private practice multi-specialty mental health group called Comprehensive Centers, which he directed for eighteen years.

His distinguished career was concluded as a professor in the psychiatry department at the University of Nevada School of Medicine in Reno. After retirement, Dr. Frye hosted ‘Politics and Health” a radio program in which he was a fierce advocate for marijuana legalization. He then wrote his first book, "Twenty-five Reasons to Legalize Drugs – We Really Lost This War!", a 375 page encyclopedia of the failure of the US drug war and the success of the Dutch decriminalization and Portuguese therapeutic legalization systems.

Having failed retirement four times, he then worked with the convicts at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City for one year, most of whom were there for drug offenses, then the American Addiction Center, treating drug addicts for 2 years and then the Las Vegas VA for 2 years. Dr. Frye continues his decades-long research about and his activism for marijuana legalization.