{"id":10662,"date":"2015-03-09T15:57:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T15:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=10662"},"modified":"2017-09-20T11:12:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T11:12:36","slug":"sam-statement-on-the-lawsuit-from-colorado-nebraska-and-kansas-law-enforcement-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2015\/03\/sam-statement-on-the-lawsuit-from-colorado-nebraska-and-kansas-law-enforcement-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"SAM Statement on the lawsuit from Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas law enforcement officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">CONTACT: KEVIN@LEARNABOUTSAM.ORG<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;\">Today, Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) President Kevin A. Sabet released a statement on the lawsuit brought law enforcement officials in Colorado, Oklahoma and Nebraska against Colorado&#8217;s Amendment 64:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;\">&#8220;Big Marijuana must be feeling the heat, and I&#8217;m sure they are lawyering up. This is now the latest in a series of lawsuits against legalization, and we support this action because Colorado&#8217;s decisions regarding marijuana are not without consequences to neighboring states, and indeed all Americans. The legalization of marijuana is not implemented in a vacuum. The current policy of denial about federal law is untenable. Surrounding states have seen a surge in marijuana-related trafficking activity. Dealers and traffickers are openly bragging about how they have been able to smuggle state-sanctioned marijuana out of Colorado. The underground market has thrived under Amendment 64, and ever-potent gummy bears, candies, and concentrates have flooded the national marijuana market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t think people should go to jail for smoking a joint, but we also don&#8217;t want to create Big Tobacco 2.0. Although states should be able to determine appropriate penalties, we need uniform federal drug laws regarding legalization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&#8220;We hope Attorney General-nominee Loretta Lynch will seriously consider the ramifications of ignoring federal law, and will understand that creating a Big Marijuana industry serves no one except the profiteers who hope to follow in Big Tobacco&#8217;s footsteps.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Source: KEVIN@LEARNABOUTSAM.ORG 5th March 2015<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: KEVIN@LEARNABOUTSAM.ORG Today, Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) President Kevin A. Sabet released a statement on the lawsuit brought law enforcement officials in Colorado, Oklahoma and Nebraska against Colorado&#8217;s Amendment 64: &#8220;Big Marijuana must be feeling the heat, and I&#8217;m sure they are lawyering up. This is now the latest in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-legal-sector","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}