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Somatic psychedelic coach Ashley Ryan and ‘Smart Approaches to Marijuana’ EVP Luke Niforatos debate the latest medical trend on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’ 

Oklahoma voters dealt a resounding loss to marijuana legalization on Tuesday: With over 95% of votes in, nearly 62% of voters came out against expanding legal cannabis to include recreational use, compared to 38% supporting it.

Speaking against Prop 122 are Luke Niforatos, CEO of Protect Our Kids & Executive V.P. of Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) and Dr. Libby Stuyt, Board Certified Addiction Psychiatrist and Board member of IASIC (International Academy on the Science and Impacts of Cannabis). Although invited, those in favor of Prop 122 declined to participate.

Executive Vice President of Smart Approaches to Marijuana Luke Niforatos discusses reports ‘big cannabis’ is funding UCLA, Harvard and MIT studies on weed on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’ Executive Vice President of Smart Approaches to Marijuana Luke Niforatos discusses reports ‘big cannabis’ is funding UCLA, Harvard and MIT studies on weed on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’

Smart Approaches to Marijuana’s Luke Niforatos discussed his group’s efforts to oppose the “commercialization and normalization of marijuana.” Our organization want to reduce marijuana use. We see this as something that is harmful in society, but we also want to prevent the commercialization of this drug, because what happens in this country when we allow …

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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.