The original version of this article appeared in exxpress.
At the MCC Budapest Summit on the global drug epidemic, exxpress spoke with Kevin Sabet. He is the president of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, a long-time advisor to several U.S. presidential administrations and one of the most well-known experts in drug policy. Immediately after his keynote—in which he described the global situation as a “new era of high-risk substances”—we asked him why marijuana today is more dangerous than ever and which political actors are enabling this shift.
Read the full The Drug Report writeup here.