“Hart’s argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both powerful and timely .
We have a long way to go, but the vital conversation this book will generate is an extraordinarily important step..
Drug Use for Grown-Ups offers a radically different vision: when used responsibly, drugs can enrich and enhance our lives.
Imagine if the only subject of any discussion about driving automobiles was fatal car crashes.
Hart argues, has been tremendously effective.
The truth was dismissed and distorted in order to keep fear and outrage stoked, the funds rolling in, and Black and brown bodies behind bars.
Drug Use for Grown-Ups will be controversial, to be sure: the propaganda war, Dr.
From inside the massively well-funded research arm of the American war on drugs, he saw how the facts did not support the ideology.
But one problem kept cropping up: the evidence from his research did not support his hypothesis.
His initial work as a researcher was aimed at proving that Drug use caused bad outcomes.
He came of age in one of Miami\'s most troubled neighborhoods at a time when many ills were being laid at the door of crack cocaine.
Hart did not always have this view.
In Drug Use for Grown-Ups, he draws on decades of research and his own personal experience to argue definitively that the criminalization and demonization of Drug use--not drugs themselves--have been a tremendous scourge on America, not least in reinforcing this country\'s enduring structural racism.
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Hart is open about the fact that he uses drugs himself, in a happy balance with the rest of his full and productive life as a researcher and professor, husband, father, and friend.
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Hart, Ziff Professor at Columbia University and former chair of the Department of Psychology, is one of the world\'s preeminent experts on the effects of so-called recreational drugs on the human mind and body.
Carl L. when it comes to the legacy of this country’s war on drugs, we should all share his outrage.” ―The New York Times Book ReviewFrom one of the world\'s foremost experts on the subject, a powerful argument that the greatest damage from drugs flows from their being illegal, and a hopeful reckoning with the possibility of their use as part of a responsible and happy lifeDr. . . “Hart’s argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both powerful and timely
