Carl Hart appears in the following:
Life, Liberty, and Drugs
Thursday, June 17, 2021
The Columbia professor Carl Hart believes that we can use drugs safely, and that doing so is our American right.
Reefer, Managed: Is Cannabis Addictive?
Tuesday, April 02, 2019
Plenty of us have struggled, or know people who have struggled, with marijuana dependency, so why do they say cannabis isn't addictive?
A Crisis of Ignorance: A Controversial View of the American Opioid Crisis
Monday, November 06, 2017
Columbia's Dr. Carl Hart says the “hysteria” around this crisis is only making it harder to solve, and that Americans must understand that this is not a crisis of addiction.
Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Drugs Edition
Friday, August 25, 2017
The media coverage of drug abuse is often fraught with hyperbole and inaccuracy. We dispel some of the most common myths.
Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Drugs Edition
Friday, April 14, 2017
The media coverage of drug abuse is often fraught with hyperbole and inaccuracy. We dispel some of the most common myths.
Attorney General Eric Holder: Change Could Be Coming to U.S. Drug Laws
Monday, August 12, 2013
Today Attorney General Eric Holder announced some substantial changes in how low-level drug offenders are prosecuted, overriding pre-existing federal laws that impose mandatory minimu...
Poverty, Race and Addiction
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Carl Hart, associate professor in the departments of psychology and psychiatry at Columbia University and the author of High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society, talks about his own life and his work on the science of drug addiction.
→ Event: Reading at Barnes and Noble, 2289 Broadway at 82nd St, today at 7 pm. Details.
Black Americans Arrested for Marijuana Possession at Far Higher Rate
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
According to new federal data, about half of all drug arrests in 2011 and 2010 were for marijuana use. But even though usage rates for marijuana are similar among whites and blacks, b...
Flawed Drug Policy Highlights Myths Around Race and Drugs
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Drug researcher Carl Hart argues that the ongoing war on drugs continues to disproportionately hurt the black community, while ignoring bigger societal woes like poverty and high scho...
