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Podcast: New Books in Medicine
Episode: Kevin A. Sabet, "Smokescreen: What the Marijuana Industry Doesn't Want You to Know" (Forefront Books, 2021)
Description: Called the âquarterback of the new anti-drug movement,â Kevin Sabet received his Ph.D. in social policy from the University of Oxford and has worked in drug policy for over two decades. Heâs served as an advisor for three presidential administrations, Pope Francis and the United Nations, and in 2013 he founded the group he still leads, Smart Approaches to Marijuana, better known as SAM, which opposes cannabis legalization and commercialization. His new book, Smokescreen: What the Marijuana Industry Doesnât Want You to Know, was released by Forefront Books earlier this year.Â ï»żEmily Dufton is the author of Grass...