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, stressed. So it's really hard to call this specific neurotransmitter "the pleasure neurotransmitter."
If you're a member of a despised group, look out! They'll find a drug and associate you with its use. There are a lot of people in the gay community … - Carl Hart
If you're a member of a despised group, look out! They'll find a drug and associate you with its use. There are a lot of people in the gay community …
- Carl Hart
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… - Carl Hart
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…
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.… - Carl Hart
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.…
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… - Carl Hart
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…
Looking at the data and at my drug use and evaluating it carefully just let me see that I wasn't special, but my drug use challenged what I thought a… - Carl Hart
Looking at the data and at my drug use and evaluating it carefully just let me see that I wasn't special, but my drug use challenged what I thought a…
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… - Carl Hart
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…
I am glad that people are trying to have a rational conversation about drugs. - Carl Hart
I am glad that people are trying to have a rational conversation about drugs.
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'… - Carl Hart
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'…
We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed. - Carl Hart
We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed.
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