Carl Hart

If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.

— Carl Hart

“If Barack Obama had come up in a time when the drug war was being waged as intensely as it is now,…

— Carl Hart

All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we…

— Carl Hart

It takes some courage to say you were wrong.

— Carl Hart

Perhaps, for once, we should try interventions that are informed by science and proven to work.

— Carl Hart

When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so…

— Carl Hart

One of the things we know about people is that people are not very courageous in general.

— Carl Hart

The notion that scientists are dispassionate - first of all, that's wrong. Scientists are extremely passionate.

— Carl Hart

“Indeed, a great deal of pathological drug use is driven by unmet social needs, by being alienated and having difficulty connecting with…

— Carl Hart

I don't want to be on the bandwagon of dogging any president or anybody in positions where they have all these different…

— Carl Hart

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

Your decision to place your law enforcement resources in these communities is racism, but nobody has called people out on this. The…

— Carl Hart

When I got out of the military, I finished up my education at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and I…

— Carl Hart

When we make decisions based on factors other than the available empirical evidence, we are less than objective, which means we are…

— Carl Hart

The way we have been thinking about brain science is that people show you pretty pictures, pretty images, and you think that…

— Carl Hart

High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.

— Carl Hart

We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed.

— Carl Hart

I went to college in the Air Force, and I went to college at the University of Maryland, who had college campuses…

— Carl Hart

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

Trump has been - has shown himself to be the most ignorant president that we've ever had. He has shown himself to…

— Carl Hart

It's not a crime to make a mistake; in fact, it's human. I certainly have made mistakes.

— Carl Hart

We need better public education and more realistic education.

— Carl Hart

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

I have three boys. And I wanted to make sure it connected with them and then those guys who grew up like…

— Carl Hart

Drug reformers get seduced by politicians who co-opt our language but who make no meaningful change. And when we don't hold politicians…

— Carl Hart