Dear Friend,


I wanted to share my featured letter in the Washington Post about how futile it is to believe that federal marijuana legalization would make us safer.


Here’s what I wrote:

Our fight is far from over and we are only getting started.

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Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) is an alliance of organizations and individuals dedicated to a health-first approach to marijuana policy. We are professionals working in mental health and public health. We are bipartisan. We are medical doctors, lawmakers, treatment providers, preventionists, teachers, law enforcement officers and others who seek a middle road between incarceration and legalization. Our commonsense, third-way approach to marijuana policy is based on reputable science and sound principles of public health and safety.