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“Indeed, a great deal of pathological drug use is driven by unmet social needs, by being alienated and having difficulty connecting with others. The” quote by Carl Hart — Download Open image

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

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“If Barack Obama had come up in a time when the drug war was being waged as intensely as it is now, we probably would never have heard of him. A single arrest could have precluded student loans, resulted in jail time, and completely ruined his life, posing a far greater threat to him than the drugs themselves did, including…

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It takes some courage to say you were wrong.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.…

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

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“I don’t fundamentally understand why people give a shit about what other people put up their noses or what other people put in their veins or what other people breathe into their lungs. I mean I sort of care like if somebodies an addict it’s very destructive to people around that addict. It’s destructive to themselves. I’d like to get…

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Love is a drug Use it wisely

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“When the black thing was at its worst, when the illicit cocktails and the ten-mile runs stopped working, I would feel numb as if…

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“With drug use related harms, explanatory models are often presented as predictive tools, even though they ‘are [rarely if ever] predictive of consequent behavior’ or outcomes. Hence, we feel confident in asserting at outset, that prohibition based approaches in drug policy lack a sound basis in empirical research (despite sounding logical, i.e. remove drugs or the means of their production…

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“Although a youth culture was in evidence by the 1950s, the first obvious and dramatic manifestation of a culture generated by peer-orientation was the hippie counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. The Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan called it “the new tribalism of the Electric Age.” Hair and dress and music played a significant part in shaping this culture, but…

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