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“We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed.” quote by Carl Hart — Download Open image

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

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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…

All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we wouldn't have…

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

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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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Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Benjamin Disraeli

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It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything-a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing, tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood, landscape gardening. But somehow people…

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Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces, essential components. You have to - you know, at this point I'm so used to operating within given assumptions about art. But when you're explaining art to art students or people who are new to this…

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea…

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The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity and the resulting ratios in the three age groups in which a large number of patients were interviewed (ages 45 to 74) are averaged, the relative risks become 6, 19, 26, 49, and 65 when the…

Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not…

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The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing…

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She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in…

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If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science…

Chauncey Wright

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If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly…

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Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.

Philip Selznick

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Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our…

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