Smokescreen

What the Marijuana Industry Doesn't Want You to Know

By: Kevin A. Sabet

Narrated by: Kevin A. Sabet

Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins

Publisher's summary

From the leading authority on marijuana - a man who has served as White House advisor on drugs to three different administrations and who NBC News once called “the prodigy of drug politics" - comes the remarkable and shocking exposé about how 21st-century pot, today’s new and highly potent form of the drug, is on the rise, spreading rapidly across America by an industry intent on putting rising profits over public health.

Smokescreen: What the Marijuana Industry Doesn't Want You to Know examines the inside story behind the headlines, containing accounts from Sabet’s time in the Obama administration, to stunning revelations from whistleblowers speaking out for the first time.

What it finds is how the marijuana industry is running rampant without proper oversight, leaving Americans’ health seriously at risk. A book several years in the making, filled with vivid characters and informed by hundreds of interviews and scores of confidential documents, Sabet's Smokescreen lays bare the unvarnished truth about marijuana in America.

©2021 Kevin A. Sabet (P)2021 Kevin A. Sabet

A Fantastic Tell-All on a Predatory Industry

This book breaks open and exposes the myths sold to us by the Marijuana industry. Using actual insider interviews, powerful storytelling, and objective scientific testimony, Kevin pulls the curtain back on a greedy industry and it's influences on public policy. You'll see exactly how the strategic business and political models come together to tear at our social and communal fabric by perpetuating inequalities in our communities and stifling individual upward mobility in America. Buy a copy for your congressmen and women and demand protections.

An awakening about marijuana

I have been following Smart Approaches to Marijuana for years and this is an amazing insight into what is going on today. Public safety takes a backseat industry profits. A must read.

A critical book for our times

A must-read for our nation as we explore further efforts to commercialize drugs like marijuana.

Informative but light

I appreciate the education on marijuana industry tactics. This book focuses on politics.

I had hoped for more science. I had hoped for a detailed analysis of how marijuana affects the body, including references to controlled studies or epidemiological studies. The content of this book is mostly anecdotes.

This made me feel … it’s complicated

Kevin Sabet is definitely right that capitalism is running amok with current pot legalization efforts and they’re going to have significant public health effects. Being as he is an insider there are a lot of great details in here about how the pot legalization movement which pretends to be about such things as health or social justice is very often being steered by capitalists who care little about any of that. But this guy really just doesn’t get intoxication. He doesn’t get vice. He has not thought critically enough about the profound injustices of the system that he perpetuates being the spokesperson of “health” for the other ugly forces in our society: namely imperialism and racism. He is happy to be their stooge, and mortified that we are willing to be the capitalists’ stooge. Further, when One finishes reading this book, it is still not clear that marijuana is dangerous directly the way opioids are. He is right about a lot of the public health implications, especially with vaping, overuse, and how it can exacerbate other mental illnesses. And I’m really glad he stresses decriminalization over straight up legalization. So there is a lot to gain here, but still … this is a weird place to put one’s focus when we just had reproductive health rights taken away and we have a gun crisis.