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

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

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

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

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

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

- 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'…

- Carl Hart

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

- Carl Hart