Kevin Sabet

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). He is also an assistant professor adjunct at Yale University Medical School, a fellow at Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and a columnist at ''Newsweek''.

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. 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, and his newest book, ''Smokescreen'', is distributed by Simon & Schuster. He announced on Twitter his new book on all drug policy will be published on Polity, likely in 2025.

Sabet is the recipient of the Nils Bejerot Award given in conjunction with Queen Silvia of Sweden 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. 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.

Upon founding SAM, ''Salon'' called Sabet "the quarterback of the new anti-drug movement" and NBC News called him a "prodigy of drug politics". Provided by Wikipedia