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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.  Hawaii is revolutionizing probation.
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 Ammiano bill would allow the state to regulate production and distri- bution and initially apply an excise tax of $50 per ounce. The RCTC proposition […]
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, play in determining marijuana use, abuse and dependence. We tested the relationship between state-level legalization of medical marijuana and marijuana use, abuse, and dependence. Methods: […]
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 Cambridge-based drug policy expert — is warning of a public health crisis unless a science-based approach is taken to minimizing the harmful consequences of marijuana […]
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 adolescents may be linked to later pot use, according to a new Dutch study.
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 sees in lessening marijuana’s historical stigma as a very dangerous drug.
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 is what I think happened here,” Patrick Kennedy said (during the formal launch of Project SAM at The Denver Press Club).