The 2025 SAM Good Drug Policy Summit will be taking place in partnership with CADCA on Feb 6th and 7th in National Harbor, MD.


Registration is now open for the 2025 SAM Good Drug Policy Summit that will consist of two days of drug policy presentations beginning in the afternoon on Thursday, February 6 and concluding on Friday, February 7.


We will bring together powerful voices in drug policy from across the field, such as prevention, treatment, recovery, and law enforcement experts to amplify our collective work and scale up drug policy solutions by educating decision-makers and the public about ways to harness science to prevent drug use, treat addiction, and forge pathways to recovery.


This is the perfect option for groups associated with non-profit organizations, corporations, healthcare, clinicians, social workers, counselors, schools, law enforcement, and local community groups around the country who want to educate their communities and employees on all issues surrounding drugs and drug policy. We go beyond slogans and clichés to give you a data-driven and tested approach to understanding these critical issues.


If you have already registered for the CADCA Leadership Forum, you now can add-on the 2025 SAM Good Drug Policy Summit via the CADCA registration page.


Certificate of Attendance Available Upon Request

Confirmed Speakers

Kevin A. Sabet, PhD, SAM & FDPS

Captain Christopher M. Jones, PharmD, DrPH, MPH
Bertha K. Madras, PhD, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital

Ben Cort, President/Managing Partner, NRT Behavioral Health, SAM Board Member

Robert L. DuPont, MD, President, Institute for Behavior and Health

Aaron Weiner, PhD, Board-Certified Psychologist

Amy Ronshausen, Drug Free America Foundation
Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, PhD, Stanford Halpern-Felsher REACH Lab
Matej Košir, Institute for Research and Development, UTRIP, Slovenia
Tom Wolf, Pacific Alliance for Prevention & Recovery
Paul Scudo, STEP Denver

Greg Bunt, MD, Past President of the International Society of Addiction Medicine
Jag Khalsa, PhD, Adjunct Professor, George Washington School of Medicine
Taffy Anderson, MD, Board-Certified Obstetrician Gynecologist
Raymond Wiggins, MD, Licensed Physician, Best-Selling Author, Speaker
Grant Denton, Karma Box Project


Plus many more!

Sponsorship opportunities are now available for the 2025 SAM Good Drug Policy Summit. For more information on how to become a sponsor, please contact [email protected].

The SAM and FDPS Leadership Dinner serves as the perfect complement to our 2025 SAM Good Drug Policy Summit and will take place on Thursday, February 6. We hope to see you for an evening of conversations around prevention, recovery, and the fight against drug normalization. More information is available through this link.

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.


The Foundation for Drug Policy Solutions (FDPS) is a national drug policy think/action tank whose vision is a world in which children and families thrive, substance use is prevented, and there is rapid access to quality treatment. From prevention and recovery to smart law enforcement and better international cooperation, we are working to change the face of drug policy. Too many people are losing their lives to addiction. It is time for big change.