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News: Ex drug addict now hot Professor defends drugs
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Ex drug addict now hot Professor defends drugs
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As we continue our conversation on the nationwide shift towards liberalizing drug laws, we’re joined now by the groundbreaking neuropsychopharmacologist Dr. Carl Hart. He’s the first tenured African-American scientist at Columbia University, where he is an associate professor in the psychology and psychiatry departments. He’s also a member of the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse and a research scientist in the Division of Substance Abuse at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. However, long before he entered the hallowed halls of the Ivy League, Carl Hart gained firsthand knowledge about drug usage while growing up in one of Miami’s toughest neighborhoods. He recently published his memoir called High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society. In the book, he recalls his journey of self-discovery, how he escaped a life of crime and drugs and avoided becoming one of the crack addicts he now studies.
Well, I come from—as you said, I grew up in the hood. And so, when we think about these communities that we care about, the communities that have been so-called devastated by drugs of abuse, I believed that narrative for a long time. In fact, I’ve been studying drugs for about 23 years; for about 20 of those years, I believed that drugs were the problems in the community. But when I started to look more carefully, started looking at the evidence more carefully, it became clear to me that drugs weren’t the problem. The problem was poverty, drug policy, lack of jobs—a wide range of things. And drugs were just one sort of component that didn’t contribute as much as we had said they have.
one of the things that shocked me when I first started to understand what was going on, when I discovered that 80 to 90 percent of the people who actually use drugs like crack cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana—80 to 90 percent of those people were not addicted.
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I never understood why ex drug addicts are here for the legalization of the very drugs that ruined their lives? 
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"Hot."
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Originally posted by BadBitches
Hot? *checks pic again*
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this is not "defending drugs", he just says there are bigger problems than drugs 
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Originally posted by Javan
I never understood why ex drug addicts are here for the legalization of the very drugs that ruined their lives? |
Many legal drugs, among other things, "ruin" people's lives. Alcohol, prescription pills, fast food, glue sticks... The ultimate reality is that people ruin their own lives with their decisions.
Outlawing drugs makes as much sense as outlawing alcohol (which is itself a drug, and one of the worst), which we also attempted unsuccessfully (prohibition).
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I've read some of his stuff, he's so smart 
please let me be like him one day jesus (- the drug addication )
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Originally posted by Afferty
this is not "defending drugs", he just says there are bigger problems than drugs |
mmmhh not really:
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Well, when we think of crack—well, we have a beautiful example now, the past year: the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, for example. The guy used crack cocaine, and he did his job. Despite what you think of him and his politics, but he came to work every day. He did his job. The same is true even of Marion Barry. He came to work every day, did his job. In fact, he did his job so well, so the people of D.C. thought, that they voted for him even after he was convicted for using crack. But that’s the majority of crack cocaine users. Just like any other drug, most of the people who use these drugs do so without a problem.
Read more at http://expandedconsciousness.com/201...VK1DlOzXJ3Y.99
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He's really only saying what every sensible, free-thinking person already knows.
There's not even a credible argument to advocate against drug use. That fact being made even more concrete when you consider that alcohol, one of the worst drugs according to actual studies, is legal most places.
One study mentioned how alcohol, unlike others like cocaine, impairs judgment and cognition in such a way that makes the user a potential danger to those around them, usually manifesting as drunk drivers. But low and behold, it's legal.
The real issue here is a false perception of drugs, drug users, and the political and business interests that won't allow for common sense to prevail ( i.e spineless politicians and the liquor/cigarette industries using their power to fend off would-be competition).
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Hot?
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Where is the hot professor? 
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And drugs were just one sort of component that didn’t contribute as much as we had said they have.
one of the things that shocked me when I first started to understand what was going on, when I discovered that 80 to 90 percent of the people who actually use drugs like crack cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana—80 to 90 percent of those people were not addicted.
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This man is so damn delusional. What kind of whack ass hood did he come from? 
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Originally posted by Javan
I never understood why ex drug addicts are here for the legalization of the very drugs that ruined their lives? |
Because they're still addicted.
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He is hot, some of yall are reaching.
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Originally posted by inspiration4
Many legal drugs, among other things, "ruin" people's lives. Alcohol, prescription pills, fast food, glue sticks... The ultimate reality is that people ruin their own lives with their decisions.
Outlawing drugs makes as much sense as outlawing alcohol (which is itself a drug, and one of the worst), which we also attempted unsuccessfully (prohibition).
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But you can't moderate coke and heroine use. They are instantly addictive and change you for the worst immediately after your first dose.
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I think you need an eye evaluation cause I'm concern for your eye sight.
if you think this is "hot" I wonder how much hotter he was when he was a crackhead
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