Kevin Sabet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetKevin Sabet
American scholar, commentator, and adviser
Date of Birth: 08-Jan-1942
Place of Birth: Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
Profession: psychiatrist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Kevin Sabet
- Kevin Abraham Sabet-Sharghi (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).
- He is also an assistant professor adjunct at Yale University Medical School, a fellow at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies, the Director of the Drug Policy Institute, and a courtesy assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida.With Patrick J.
- Kennedy, Sabet co-founded Smart Approaches to Marijuana in Denver in January 2013.Sabet is the author of numerous articles and monographs including the book Reefer Sanity: Seven Great Myths About Marijuana, now in its second edition.Sabet is the recipient of the Nils Bejerot Award given in conjunction with H.M.
- Queen Silvia of Sweden and was one of four Americans (along with Jonathan Caulkins, Bertha Madras, and Robert DuPont) invited by Pope Francis to the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences to discuss marijuana and other drug policy.
- He was invited to speak at the Allen and Co.
- Sun Valley Investor's Conference in 2018.Upon founding SAM, Salon called Sabet "the quarterback of the new anti-drug movement" and NBC News called him a "prodigy of drug politics".On December 4, 2019, Dr.
- Sabet, in his capacity as President and CEO of SAM, accepts an award from D.A.R.E.
- International for SAM's "endeavors in advancing marijuana policies aligned with the scientific understanding of the harm and consequences of legalization of marijuana" during an educational benefit luncheon in New York.
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