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Idaho Senate committee makes smart move
We at Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) commend the Idaho Senate State Affairs Committee for sending two anti-marijuana resolutions to the full state Senate with “do-pass recommendations.”
‘What we need is less drug use’
We appreciate your letters of support which — like this one that arrived today from Joyce Morris in Colorado — encourage and energize(!) our volunteers. We invite you to contact […]
Sabet speaks with Huffington Post D.C. bureau chief
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 […]
SAM Sends Letter to the Hon. Attorney General Eric Holder to Enforce the Controlled Substances Act
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, […]
The real skinny on SAM: a response to Maia Szalavitz
Columnist Maia Szalavitz devoted 1000 words on TheFix.com last week to single-handedly bash a project she clearly does not know much about.
Dr. Thurstone: Keep marijuana stores away from schools
Dr. Christian Thurstone: “It really blows my mind that this is even a debate … that we even have to really push hard to get them away from schools.”
Kennedy takes aim against marijuana legalization
Patrick Kennedy spoke with MSNBC in January 2013.
Sabet debates marijuana legalization
SAM Director Kevin Sabet debates Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance on July 17, 2012 on CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello.
Prohibition’s real lessons for drug policy
Prohibition — America’s notoriously “failed social experiment” to rid the country of alcohol — took center stage this week as PBS broadcast Ken Burns’ highly acclaimed series on the subject. […]
End of the war, but not the fight, against drugs
When discussing drug policies and their enforcement, the war analogy is not a particularly useful one.
CADCA: Not your father’s drug-prevention program
In 1989, just a few months after his inauguration, America’s new president, George H.W. Bush, called up his friend Tom Landry, who had just stepped down as the beloved coach […]
Meet Project HOPE in Hawaii
A radical program in the Pineapple State is shattering myths about how to deal with drug offenders who violate probation. If only the rest of the country would catch on. […]
How California’s marijuana legalization could influence consumption and public budgets
California Assembly Bill 2254—often referred to as the Ammiano bill—and the Regulate, Control, and Tax Cannabis (RCTC) proposition would legalize marijuana use for those 21 and over in California. The […]
The relationship between medical marijuana laws, use abuse and dependence
Marijuana is the most frequently used illicit substance in the United States. Little is known of the role that macro-level factors, including community norms and laws related to substance use, […]
Kennedy criticized for trying to keep marijuana illegal
On Jan. 9, 2013, the Boston Globe reported: “Kennedy’s group, called Smart Approaches to Marijuana — which is also led by a top pediatrician at Children’s Hospital Boston and a […]
Marijuana debate isn’t just legalization vs. incarceration
Project SAM directors Patrick Kennedy and Kevin Sabet wrote this column, published Jan. 12, 2013 in The Denver Post.
Link between pot, psychosis goes both ways in kids
As Reuters noted Dec. 25, 2012. “Marijuana (cannabis) use may be linked to the development of psychotic symptoms in teens – but the reverse could also be true: psychosis in […]
MSNBC: “Up with Chris Hayes”
Project SAM Director Kevin Sabet recently discussed marijuana in a roundtable discussion you don’t want to miss.
Patrick Kennedy: Marijuana industry will be the next tobacco industry
Project SAM Chairman Patrick Kennedy told MSNBC that the United States needs to halt efforts to legalize marijuana:
A response to Steven Chapman of the Chicago Tribune
This column by Project SAM director Kevin Sabet appeared in The Huffington Post Jan. 24.
Tired of the loaded language? So are we.
Two members of SAM’s board of directors, Kevin Sabet and David Frum, have been named “legalization’s biggest enemies” by Rolling Stone.
Kennedy kicks off anti-marijuana effort in Colorado
As The Daily Caller reported Jan. 11, 2013: “Kennedy also discussed his family’s struggles with alcoholism and his own addiction to Oxycontin, using the story to illustrate the danger he […]
Patrick Kennedy sees ‘mad rush’ to legalize marijuana
As the Washington Times reported Jan. 11, 2013: “What I want is to slow this train down and kind of begin a discussion before other states rush to judgment, which […]
