Kevin Sabet

Kennedy rails against new medical marijuana law By K.C. Myers, Cape Cod Times WEST BARNSTABLE — It doesn’t take a National Institutes of Health study to realize more marijuana in the marketplace, combined with the profit motive, will lead to more addiction, former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy said at a presentation Friday at Cape Cod […]

Colorado Fails to Regulate Marijuana – and Colorado Springs Decides Not to Take Their Chances With Legalization At All By Kevin Sabet, The Huffington Post Though voters in Colorado and Washington officially legalized marijuana in November, most of us have known for a while that marijuana has enjoyed de facto legalization status in a few […]

In Congress, I voted many times to allow access to medical marijuana. Those votes reflected my early, uneducated views. I never looked too closely — I didn’t realize “medical marijuana” was the Trojan horse for legalization. When I woke up after the 2012 election, two states had voted to legalize marijuana. That day I also […]

Legalization advocates have been crying foul since SAM Director Kevin Sabet quoted directly from a report by Seattle Schools saying that 39% of kids who used marijuana received their drug from a medical marijuana dispensary. It’s not so strange that some advocates responded that way – after all, the first bit of data released showed […]

Federal and state attorneys general must take action to end marijuana standoff, promote public and mental health FOR RELEASE May 2, 2013 STATEMENT TO THE PRESS BY: Patrick J. Kennedy, on behalf of Smart Approaches to Marijuana (Project SAM) Lead Sponsor of Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act (D) Congressman Andy Harris, MD Medical Doctor, […]

(Washington, DC) – Project SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana) held a briefing today at the House Rayburn building (room 2203) to discuss the link between marijuana and mental illness. They also presented almost 40,000 signatures to the House and Senate leadership in support of marijuana prevention and in opposition to marijuana legalization. “Science has revealed […]

“Mr Rohrbacher’s latest attempt to legalize marijuana will likely suffer the same fate as his several previous failed attempts have over the past decade. The Pew poll was just that — one poll. It reflects, more than anything, the lopsided discussion about legalization in this country. I’d like to know how how many of those […]

Listen to the Dr. Drew Podcast with Kevin Sabet using the link below: http://drdrew.com/036-kevin-sabet/

Monumental news! This just in: Despite the odds, SAM Hawaii defeated the de facto legalization (“decriminalization”) bill in the legislature that was destined to easily pass a month ago, just prior to SAM’s trip to the islands! Working with local community advocates and supportive legislators, SAM’s team, led by Patrick Kennedy and Kevin Sabet, held […]

HONOLULU — Opponents of decriminalizing marijuana in this state have a new partner — a prominent national figure who has made it a point to fight legislation through education. Patrick Kennedy is the co-chair of Project SAM — Smart Approaches to Marijuana, or SAM.

Kevin Sabet fields questions about marijuana legalization while also speaking with Ryan Grim, Washington, D.C., bureau chief of The Huffington Post. He also got a chance to speak about our organization — and to explain why Big Marijuana is girding to go the ways of Big Tobacco and Big Alcohol — unless more of us […]

  Patrick Kennedy, Co-chair of SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana) sent a  letter to  the Hon. Eric Holder today regarding the marijuana initiatives in CO and WA, on behalf of CADCA, NADCP, NNOAC, SAM, AAP-Colorado, and Smart Colorado. Click below to read the letter. FEB KENNEDY LETTER – DOJ Thank you.    

Project SAM Chairman Patrick Kennedy told MSNBC that the United States needs to halt efforts to legalize marijuana: