More Seniors Are Using Drugs—Here's Why It Matters | Opinion For decades, Americans worried about their kids getting high. Now, alarming new data suggest they should be just as worried about their parents and grandparents.

JUST RELEASED: Our President and CEO Dr. Kevin Sabet explains why seniors using more marijuana is no joke in @newsweek.com.
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Cannabis industry leaders allege smoke shops are breaking the law Sioux Falls has only five dispensary licenses. Despite this, Emmett Reistroffer with Genesis Farms said these products are making their way to patients in unregulated and dangerous ways.

Marijuana industry wants law enforcement to step in when it comes to pot shops circumventing regulation. There's a lot to unpack here.
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It's never been cheaper to get a license to sell pot in California "I don't know if there's any value here."

They're handing them out like candy (the licenses--but also the pot)
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Language written by SAM was just included in Congress’s Ag/FDA report demanding an Inspector General investigation into Biden’s flawed marijuana rescheduling process.

Lawmakers are right to question deviations from science and the risks. Great to see our hard work recognized, word-for-word.

Spread the word.

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Friday Fact 6/6/2025: Going to the hospital for marijuana ups your risk of death - Smart Approaches to Marijuana Marijuana isn’t harmless. In fact, it’s intimately linked with dying. Or so suggests a frightening study from Ontario. It examined whether individuals who received hospital-based care for cannabis use...

Friday Fact: Going to the hospital for marijuana ups your risk of death. Click to read more.
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BGOV Farm Brief The House fiscal 2026 food, drug, and agriculture funding bill includes a rider seeking to curb a growing multibillion-dollar industry for hemp-derived products.

"SAM president and CEO Kevin Sabet, on the other hand, called the move 'a crucial victory in the long fight to ban hemp intoxicants' in a Wednesday statement."

—On the attempt to ban the sale of hemp-derived THC products like Delta-8 in Congress.

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SAM Applauds the Appointment of Doug Simon as Director of the US Department of Transportation’s Office of Drug and Alcohol Policy Compliance (ODPAC)

Marijuana edibles and joints may cause early heart damage, study finds | CNN Using THC-laced edibles and smoking marijuana are both linked to early signs of cardiovascular disease, a new study found.

Yikes
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US appeals court rejects challenge to federal marijuana ban A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday rejected arguments by several Massachusetts cannabis businesses that the federal prohibition on marijuana could no longer be deemed constitutional, as the U.S. Supreme Court held two decades ago.

Lawfare at its finest
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NH Senate Republicans throw cold water on pot legalization bill Legalization bills have passed the New Hampshire House of Representatives several times in previous years only to die in the Senate. Last year, a legalization bill passed the Senate but didn’t clear t...

Since the publication of this article, two more marijuana measures have been killed. We commend the New Hampshire Senate and especially its Majority Leader Regina Birdsell for erecting an iron wall against pro-marijuana policies.
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Former Cherry Hills Village resident, hemp business owner facing federal charges A former resident of Cherry Hills Village has been charged with one count of wire fraud and money laundering in connection with millions of dollars that federal officials say were bilked from disas…

Defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for your hemp business is crazy work
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A psychedelic trip that offers to bring you closer to God If the Church legitimizes psilocybin as a pathway to God, it will create a new faith entirely

Our EVP Luke Niforatos penned a powerful piece in Christian Post challenging the growing trend of faith leaders using psychedelics to “get closer to God.” He opens up about why that path is misguided & dangerous. Click the link to read the piece in full.
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Watch the PBS documentary High Risk—The Truth About Weed which uncovers the link between marijuana use and mental health problems, especially in youth. It features our EVP Luke Niforatos.

Full documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Ur...
And check out our organization here: learnaboutsam.org

Watch High Risk—The Truth About Weed tonight at 8 p.m. on Wyoming PBS, in which SAM EVP Luke Niforatos is featured.

The film uncovers the link between marijuana use and mental health issues, especially in youth. The documentary will appear on the Wyoming PBS YouTube channel soon after its airing.

It’s #NationalPreventionWeek.

Daily marijuana use has more than doubled since 2009. Rates of teen addiction is 25% higher in legal states.

THC products now reach 99% potency.

This isn’t prevention, it’s profit.

We need science-backed policies, not Big Weed’s playbook.

YouTube video by Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) Common-sense, science backed drug policies should be the norm | Dr. Kevin Sabet

The backbone of SAM and our sister organization the Foundation for Drug Policy Solutions @GoodDrugPolicy is the science.
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Medical cannabis industry organizes against Maine proposals to test for mold, track plants Maine is the only state in the country that doesn't mandate testing for mold, yeast, chemicals or heavy metal in its medical marijuana. The state's medical growers are fighting to keep it that way.

Organizing against mold testing is nasty work.
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Marijuana is extremely dangerous to the fetus in the womb, study finds | CNN Many parents-to-be think because marijuana is natural, it won’t harm their developing baby. As marijuana use during pregnancy rises, research shows that’s not true.

Any effort to suppress or obscure this information is vile. Looking at you, 'cannamoms.'
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"All the pot shops are in Pleasantville. Is there one pot shop in Brigantine? No."
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We had a great time presenting to the dedicated folks of the National Alliance for Drug-Endangered Children in recognition of #DECAwarenessDay! We wanted to pass on their message that it's never too early—or late —to intervene.

Happy Earth Day! Today is a day to express gratitude for our planet and be aware of the countless ways in which we as a species mistreat it. The humans running the marijuana industry are great examples. They are harming both human and environmental health for evermore profit.

April 20 and Fatal Traffic Crashes in the United States This data analysis examines the association between the April 20 cannabis celebrations in the United States and a population-level increase in the risk of fatal traffic crash involvement.

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"We examined a quarter-century of national data and found a 12% increase in the relative risk of a fatal traffic crash after 4:20 pm on April 20 compared with identical time intervals on control days."

New York Investigates Brands Accused of Selling Illegally Sourced Weed New York State is investigating some of America’s biggest cannabis brands over a tactic that has become pervasive in the absence of strong oversight.

What we’ve known all along.

The marijuana industry is selling illegally sourced product “legally.”
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Four important ways Trump can tackle the drug crisis and Make America Healthy Again President Trump just issued new priorities for drug policy. The US needs a national PR campaign and a strategy that targets the cartels and embraces Making America Healthy Again.

Read Dr. Kevin Sabet's brand new op-ed published by Fox News!
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