Carl Hart Quotes

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

My critique of how we deal with drugs in society is just that - that we use these anecdotes to apply to everyone and the anecdotes are not representative.

High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.

I am glad that people are trying to have a rational conversation about drugs.

Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult.

We need to continuously put pressure on politicians to do more, because they are happy just to do nothing—it’s easier to do nothing.

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