118 | Dr. Kevin Sabet: 4/20 Special: America’s Decriminalizing Drugs, What’s Next?

Email us your thoughts about this episode, or any episode, at [email protected] a book using our bookshop link: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentDr. Kevin Sabet, President and CEO of Smart Approaches to Marijuana and author of Smokescreen: What the Marijuana Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know, joins The Realignment to reflect on the failures and success of the war on drugs, the effects of recent state decriminalization initiatives, his time as a drug policy official in the Bush and Obama administrations, and why the rise of a “commercialized,” multi billion dollar marijuana industry should be a cause for concern for opponents and of decriminalization/legalization alike.