Carl Hart Quotes
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All children will do things that you may not want them to. That's part of parenting.
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I went into the military because I didn't get a scholarship, a basketball scholarship I thought that I would get.
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I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.
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Researchers, treatment providers - we all have a stake in the drug hysteria game.
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When we make decisions based on factors other than the available empirical evidence, we are less than objective, which means we are no longer acting as scientists.
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Number one in high school, when I was sort of entrenched in the street life, if you will, the major thing that kept me plugged in the mainstream was athletics. I played basketball throughout high school. I also played football, but I played basketball throughout high school.
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All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we wouldn't have had subsidized housing. Most of my childhood, we had a two-bedroom apartment, but eventually we got into the projects, where we had four bedrooms. That was great.
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The strange proposition that black intellectuals - regardless of their training - are 'race experts' mainly because they are black is naive and potentially dangerous.
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Most of the stuff that parades as drug education in this country is just rubbish with no foundation in evidence.
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It takes some courage to say you were wrong.
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You have to be open-minded, and you have to be critical, and you have to let go of your predispositions about what you've been told that doesn't have foundations in evidence.
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As a parent, a scientist, and educator, what I know is that it's always better to provide the education that will help keep my children - all people - safe, even if I don't want them to engage in the behavior.
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In the hood, you have a problem with somebody, you have to deal with it. The outcome is pretty immediate.
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I strongly discourage any intellectuals, regardless of race, from speaking on matters for which they have limited or no expertise.
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My research has taught me many important lessons, but perhaps none more important than this: drug effects, like semesters, are predictable; police interactions with black people are not.
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If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.
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If we were going to look at how pharmalogical drugs influence crime, we should probably look at alcohol.
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It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.
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Drug reformers get seduced by politicians who co-opt our language but who make no meaningful change. And when we don't hold politicians accountable, we contribute to harm.
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I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness.
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One of the things we know about people is that people are not very courageous in general.
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The notion that scientists are dispassionate - first of all, that's wrong. Scientists are extremely passionate.
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It is always a good time when I visit the 'Melissa Harris Perry Show' on MSNBC.
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If you are funding researchers to look primarily for pathology, not surprisingly, that is what they are going to find and report on.