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

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..

When you have the national narrative being "crack is awful and black people are using it," why go against that narrative when you want to get that pu….

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

People rarely die from heroin alone, it's the combination that's deadly. Maybe we should blast that out as a public health education message. That wa….

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 ….

Crack in the early 1980s or mid 1980s I'm sorry is that one of the worst myth is that one hit and you're addicted for life. We saw that in 1980s and ….

Much of the early work focused on dopamine and we were really looking for rewarding sorts of effects and sure enough, we only found that. But you can….

If we want to think about racism and how it might play out in drug policy, we have to think about the trial of George Zimmerman. We think about the p….

I think about my cocaine use. I liked it. I thought it was a great drug. But I knew that if I was doing that almost exclusively, I wouldn't be able t….

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, st….

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 representa….

You have rappers saying "stay off drugs, go to school" - empty verbal behavior. I think all of this became institutionalized in the early '90s. And i….

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 o….

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'….

Your decision to place your law enforcement resources in these communities is racism, but nobody has called people out on this. The law itself is not….

Take crack cocaine. Particularly in the early days of the policy, ninety percent of the people being arrested were black, even though they didn't use….

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

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

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.….

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….