Marijuana Policy, Marijuana Facts, and Marijuana Myths
Described by NBC as the “prodigy” of drug politics and policy, Kevin A. Sabet, Ph.D., is an author, consultant, former advisor to three U.S. presidential administrations, assistant professor, and serves as the president and CEO of SAM, Smart Approaches to Marijuana, which he founded with former Congressman Patrick Kennedy in 2013. He has studied, researched, written about, and implemented drug policy for almost 20 years. He has worked in the Clinton (2000), Bush (2002-2003) Administrations, and in 2011 he stepped down after serving more than two years as the senior advisor to President Obama’s drug control director, having been the only drug policy staffer to have ever served as a political appointee in both Democrat and Republican administrations. He is the author of the book Reefer Sanity: Seven Great Myths About Marijuana, published by Beaufort.
He received his Doctorate of Philosophy and Masters of Science from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar in 2007 and 2002, respectively, and his B.A. with high honors in political science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001.
Dr. Sabet will be the third speaker in a series on the public policy implications of marijuana legalization sponsored by the Rose Institute of State and Local Government.