Luke Niforatos

They told us legalizing marijuana was about personal freedom

Follow Vermont’s lead, put a cap on pot potency

State’s pot trade is dangerously underregulated

Melissa Moore, deputy director of New York State Policy Office, and Luke Niforatos, chief of staff and senior policy advisor at SAM, debate whether pot should be legal in the U.S. with CNBC’s “Power Lunch” team.

Anti-Cannabis movements such as Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) are spending unprecedented amounts of money heading into the 2018 midterm elections. SAM’s Senior Policy Advisor Luke Niforatos explains why he’s against the commercialization of weed.