High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society. — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed. — 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
One of the things that has happened is that our drug laws have been institutionalized now. If you want to say that… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
My critique of how we deal with drugs in society is just that - that we use these anecdotes to apply to… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
I am glad that people are trying to have a rational conversation about drugs. — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Much of the early work focused on dopamine and we were really looking for rewarding sorts of effects and sure enough, we… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
If we want to think about racism and how it might play out in drug policy, we have to think about the… — 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
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
You have rappers saying "stay off drugs, go to school" - empty verbal behavior. I think all of this became institutionalized in… — 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
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
“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 Image
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 Image
Perhaps, for once, we should try interventions that are informed by science and proven to work. — 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 that becomes… — 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
The notion that scientists are dispassionate - first of all, that's wrong. Scientists are extremely passionate. — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 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, angry, stressed.… — 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 law itself… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
