If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't. — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
One of the things we know about people is that people are not very courageous in general. — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
I am committed to the people who are sick and tired of seeing their tax dollars being used to fund unethical people… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
I am glad that people are trying to have a rational conversation about drugs. — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
People rarely die from heroin alone, it's the combination that's deadly. Maybe we should blast that out as a public health education… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
The way we're currently educating people about heroin is to say that heroin is so awful. Heroin is not so much the… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
If you're a member of a despised group, look out! They'll find a drug and associate you with its use. There are… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Too often, ill-informed rhetoric has led to emotional hysteria that obfuscates solid evidence regarding the real problems faced by poor people and,… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Dopamine makes up less than one percent of the brain's neurotransmitters. It's a small portion. Dopamine is released when people are happy,… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
My research has taught me many important lessons, but perhaps none more important than this: drug effects, like semesters, are predictable; police… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
When you have the national narrative being "crack is awful and black people are using it," why go against that narrative when… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
I have three boys. And I wanted to make sure it connected with them and then those guys who grew up like… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Your decision to place your law enforcement resources in these communities is racism, but nobody has called people out on this. The… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
I think about my cocaine use. I liked it. I thought it was a great drug. But I knew that if I… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Looking at the data and at my drug use and evaluating it carefully just let me see that I wasn't special, but… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Take crack cocaine. Particularly in the early days of the policy, ninety percent of the people being arrested were black, even though… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Crack in the early 1980s or mid 1980s I'm sorry is that one of the worst myth is that one hit and… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
The way we have been thinking about brain science is that people show you pretty pictures, pretty images, and you think that… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
I've had investigations of my lab because people didn't like what I had to say. And when you have investigations and you're… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't. — Carl Hart Copy Share
“If Barack Obama had come up in a time when the drug war was being waged as intensely as it is now, we probably… — Carl Hart Copy Share
All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we wouldn't have… — Carl Hart Copy Share
Perhaps, for once, we should try interventions that are informed by science and proven to work. — Carl Hart Copy Share
When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes… — Carl Hart Copy Share
One of the things we know about people is that people are not very courageous in general. — Carl Hart Copy Share
The notion that scientists are dispassionate - first of all, that's wrong. Scientists are extremely passionate. — Carl Hart Copy Share
“Indeed, a great deal of pathological drug use is driven by unmet social needs, by being alienated and having difficulty connecting with others. The” — Carl Hart Copy Share
I don't want to be on the bandwagon of dogging any president or anybody in positions where they have all these different constituencies. — Carl Hart Copy Share
Dopamine makes up less than one percent of the brain's neurotransmitters. It's a small portion. Dopamine is released when people are happy, angry, stressed.… — Carl Hart Copy Share
Your decision to place your law enforcement resources in these communities is racism, but nobody has called people out on this. The law itself… — Carl Hart Copy Share
When I got out of the military, I finished up my education at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and I had some… — Carl Hart Copy Share
When we make decisions based on factors other than the available empirical evidence, we are less than objective, which means we are no longer… — Carl Hart Copy Share
The way we have been thinking about brain science is that people show you pretty pictures, pretty images, and you think that that tells… — Carl Hart Copy Share
