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A valuable friend is one who'll tell you what you should be told, even if it offends you.

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Carl Hart

I have three boys. And I wanted to make sure it connected with them and then those guys who grew up like me, in environments like me. And then I knew something about science that your New York Times reader would be interested in. So I was thinking about it in multiple ways: I'll connect with the people who grew up like me first, and then the New York Times reader will be interested in the science because it's so good and they want to be "in the know. "

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

Assumption, Based, Drug, Drugs, Flawed, Should

One of the things that has happened is that our drug laws have been institutionalized now. If you want to say that somebody's a bad person in a movie or in a television show or something about that, you say they sell drugs or they use drugs.

Drug, Happened, Law, Laws, Person, Use

The way we're currently educating people about heroin is to say that heroin is so awful. Heroin is not so much the problem. It's when you combine it. It's hard to die from heroin alone.

People, Awful, Way, Currently, Hard

The policy that received more attention particularly in the past decade and a half or so has been the US cocaine policy, the differential treatment of crack versus powder cocaine and question is how my research impacted my view on policy. Clearly that policy is not based on the weight of the scientific evidence. That is when the policy was implemented, the concern about crack cocaine was so great that something had to be done and congress acted in the only way they knew how, they passed policy and that's what a responsible society should do.

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Our ability to study the brain has been limited because of our tools and our tools have only allowed us to look at one neurotransmitter and we haven't looked so much into co-localization and co-release of transmitters. Our thinking is hampered by our tools.

Thinking, Brain, Tools, Limited, Hampered
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