Kevin Sabet information

Kevin A. Sabet
Kevin A. Sabet
	Kevin Sabet, speaking at the New Yorker Magazine Festival, 2014
Born	1979; Ft. Wayne, Indiana, US
Known for	Founding Smart Approaches to Marijuana; Opposing marijuana legalization;
Awards	Marshall Scholarship, Nils Bejerot Award for Global Drug Prevention, John P. McGovern Award
Academic background
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley; Oxford University
Doctoral advisor	George Smith
Other advisors	Bruce Cain; William "Sandy" Muir
Influences	David F. Musto; Robert L. DuPont
Academic work
Discipline	drug policy, public policy, journalism
Institutions	The White House, ONDCP, Yale University, University of Florida, SAM

Kevin Abraham Sabet (born February 20, 1979) is a former three-time White House Office of National Drug Control Policy advisor, having been the only person appointed to that office by both a Republican (administration of George W. Bush) and Democrat (Obama administration and Clinton administration).^[1] He is also an assistant professor adjunct at Yale University Medical School,^[2] a fellow at Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies,^[3] and a columnist at Newsweek.^[4]

With Patrick J. Kennedy, Sabet co-founded Smart Approaches to Marijuana in Denver in January 2013, which has emerged as the leading opponent of marijuana legalization in the United States.^[5] In 2023, he and Kennedy founded the Foundation for Drug Policy Solutions, a think/action tank to tackle the addiction crisis. The US launch took place at the Clinton Foundation's Clinton Global Initiative and the University Club of New York, along with officials from the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations. A global launch at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs took place in 2024.

Sabet is the author of numerous articles and monographs including the book Reefer Sanity: Seven Great Myths About Marijuana, now in its second edition,^[6] and his newest book, Smokescreen, is distributed by Simon & Schuster.^[7] He announced on Twitter his new book on all drug policy will be published on Polity, likely in 2025.^[8]

Sabet is the recipient of the Nils Bejerot Award given in conjunction with Queen Silvia of Sweden^[9] and was one of four Americans (along with Jonathan Caulkins, Bertha Madras, and Robert DuPont) invited to advise Pope Francis by the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences to discuss marijuana and other drug policy.^[10]^[11] He spoke in front of Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett, and others at the Allen and Company Sun Valley Investor's Conference in 2018 and is a regular attendee; he was seen at Sun Valley in one of his first public appearances since 2020 with Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg in 2021.^[12]^[13]^[14]

Upon founding SAM, Salon called Sabet "the quarterback of the new anti-drug movement"^[15] and NBC News called him a "prodigy of drug politics".^[16]

^ Butler, Colin. "Why this former U.S. drug adviser thinks legal Canadian weed is 'the next big tobacco'". CBC News. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
^ "Directories - Yale University". directory.yale.edu. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
^ "Kevin Sabet - Institution for Social and Policy Studies". isps.yale.edu. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
^ "Kevin Sabet". Newsweek. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
^ Dobuzinskis, Alex. "U.S. foes of legal pot focus on risks to the brain". Reuters. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
^ "Kevin Sabet — Reefer Sanity by Kevin Sabet". Reefersanity.net. Archived from the original on August 27, 2013. Retrieved June 9, 2014.
^ Sabet, Kevin A. (April 20, 2021). Smokescreen. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-948677-87-5.
^ "https://twitter.com/KevinSabet/status/1618986863204921350?s=20&t=0OyxRFtzw0okwIkDKA7WVA". Twitter. Retrieved February 8, 2023. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
^ "Kevin Sabet is the winner of the 3rd Nils Bejerot Award". wfad.se. World Federation Against Drugs. Archived from the original on June 1, 2014. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
^ "Smart Approaches to Marijuana- SAM". Smart Approaches to Marijuana. November 23, 2016. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
^ "Narcotics: Problems and Solutions of this Global Issue". Archived from the original on May 17, 2017. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
^ Lang, Brent (June 1, 2018). "Sun Valley 2018 Guest List Includes Shari Redstone, Leslie Moonves, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
^ Lang, Brent (June 7, 2021). "Sun Valley Guest List Includes David Zaslav, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Diane Sawyer (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved June 9, 2021.
^ "CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg walks with COO of Facebook Sheryl..." Getty Images. Retrieved July 22, 2021.
^ Seitz-Wald, Alex (February 13, 2013). "Meet the quarterback of the new anti-drug movement". Salon. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
^ "Treatment or Jail: Patrick Kennedy Wages Fierce Anti-Pot Crusade". NBC News. February 17, 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2019.

[1] Butler, Colin. "Why this former U.S. drug adviser thinks legal Canadian weed is 'the next big tobacco'". CBC News. Retrieved December 22, 2020.

[2] "Directories - Yale University". directory.yale.edu. Retrieved March 4, 2019.

[3] "Kevin Sabet - Institution for Social and Policy Studies". isps.yale.edu. Retrieved March 4, 2019.

[4] "Kevin Sabet". Newsweek. Retrieved December 6, 2020.

[5] Dobuzinskis, Alex. "U.S. foes of legal pot focus on risks to the brain". Reuters. Retrieved August 18, 2018.

[reefersanity-6] "Kevin Sabet — Reefer Sanity by Kevin Sabet". Reefersanity.net. Archived from the original on August 27, 2013. Retrieved June 9, 2014.

[:0-7] Sabet, Kevin A. (April 20, 2021). Smokescreen. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-948677-87-5.

[8] "https://twitter.com/KevinSabet/status/1618986863204921350?s=20&t=0OyxRFtzw0okwIkDKA7WVA". Twitter. Retrieved February 8, 2023. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)

[9] "Kevin Sabet is the winner of the 3rd Nils Bejerot Award". wfad.se. World Federation Against Drugs. Archived from the original on June 1, 2014. Retrieved August 18, 2018.

[10] "Smart Approaches to Marijuana- SAM". Smart Approaches to Marijuana. November 23, 2016. Retrieved August 18, 2018.

[11] "Narcotics: Problems and Solutions of this Global Issue". Archived from the original on May 17, 2017. Retrieved August 18, 2018.

[12] Lang, Brent (June 1, 2018). "Sun Valley 2018 Guest List Includes Shari Redstone, Leslie Moonves, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved August 20, 2018.

[13] Lang, Brent (June 7, 2021). "Sun Valley Guest List Includes David Zaslav, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Diane Sawyer (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved June 9, 2021.

[14] "CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg walks with COO of Facebook Sheryl..." Getty Images. Retrieved July 22, 2021.

[15] Seitz-Wald, Alex (February 13, 2013). "Meet the quarterback of the new anti-drug movement". Salon. Retrieved August 18, 2018.

[16] "Treatment or Jail: Patrick Kennedy Wages Fierce Anti-Pot Crusade". NBC News. February 17, 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2019.

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Kevin A. Sabet
Kevin Sabet, speaking at the New Yorker Magazine Festival, 2014
Born	1979 Ft. Wayne, Indiana, US
Known for	Founding Smart Approaches to Marijuana Opposing marijuana legalization
Awards	Marshall Scholarship, Nils Bejerot Award for Global Drug Prevention, John P. McGovern Award

Academic background
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley Oxford University
Doctoral advisor	George Smith
Other advisors	Bruce Cain William "Sandy" Muir
Influences	David F. Musto Robert L. DuPont
Academic work
Discipline	drug policy, public policy, journalism
Institutions	The White House, ONDCP, Yale University, University of Florida, SAM