Reviewing SAM’s take on recent marijuana reserch and reform developments

As regular readers surely realize, I tend generally to favor modern marijuana reform efforts. Consequently, I tend generally to notice and feel most inspired to blog about research and press reports that tend generally to favor modern marijuana reform efforts. But I fully recognize, and generally have respect for, the many policy-makers and advocates who strongly oppose modern marijuana reform efforts.

Especially because I think it is critical in this space and elsewhere that competing voices are heard and dynamic perspectives considered in modern marijuana reform debates, I am ever grateful for the efforts of Kevin Sabet and his group SAM: Smart Approaches to Marijuana for covering and promoting reform-opposition research and developments. And, and these recent posts from the SAM blog highlight, SAM has has a lot to say on these topics over just the last 10 days:

• SAM President Kevin Sabet gives testimony before United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control

• Backwards Momentum for Marijuana Legalization as Maine House Overwhelmingly Rejects Legalization

• Obama Administration Eliminates Public Health Service Marijuana Research Review

• New Study: “Medical Marijuana Laws Amplify Recreational Juvenile Marijuana Use”

• SAM Statement on June 2015 Medical Marijuana Study Published in Lancet Psychiatry

• Colorado Adult Marijuana Use Now Almost Double the National Average

• Unanimous Coloado Supreme Court: Employers Do Not Have To Accommodate Marijuana Use