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Amendment already ‘hamstrings’ Colorado
Denver journalist Christine Tatum, a friend to SAM, writes: “It’s troubling that every regulatory framework of marijuana Colorado is considering is outside the bounds of federal law — and that the one regulatory framework that stands to save more lives and public resources is the very one its lawmakers haven’t found the political will to […]
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 us — and to support SAM.
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 organization — and to explain why Big Marijuana is girding to go the ways of Big Tobacco and Big Alcohol — unless more of us […]
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, NADCP, NNOAC, SAM, AAP-Colorado, and Smart Colorado. Click below to read the letter. FEB KENNEDY LETTER – DOJ Thank you.
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. And already, it has been seized on by drug legalization advocates, who say it proves that drug prohibition should be abandoned. But a closer look […]
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.