Posted on 02/19/2021 3:57:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
Carl Hart is a Columbia University professor of psychology and neuroscience. He chairs the psych department and has a fondness for heroin – not only as a subject of scholarly pursuit but also as a substance for personal use.
At 54, the married father of three has snorted small amounts of heroin for as many as 10 days in a row and enjoyed it mightily – even if, as he recalls in his new book “Drug Use for Grown-ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear” (Penguin Press), he’s experienced mild withdrawal symptoms “12 to 16 hours after the last dose.”
But, as Hart sees it, the discomfort is a worthwhile trade-off. “There aren’t many things in life that I enjoy more than a few lines by the fireplace at the end of the day,” he writes, pointing out that the experience leaves him “refreshed” and “prepared to face another day.”
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“...the married father of three...”
There’s a hole in Daddy’s arm where all the money goes...
Gateway drug to what?
To hard drugs.
Yep. Creep factor on high.
What an asshole.
I drink whiskey and I deliberately never tell that to my students.
How many kids did this self-absorbed fool just murder?
I don’t consider “what-about-alcohol-nicotine-caffeine” to be a good argument for recreational drug legalization. Alcoholic beverages are too ingrained in the culture to ban. Prohibition was tried, and it failed. Yes, alcohol is an abused drug for many people, but how is that a good argument for introducing and encouraging the use and abuse of other drugs too? It’s kind of like saying that we have a known problem with automobiles driving over the speed limit, so let’s ditch speed limits entirely... and also introduce other types of vehicles onto roadway such as drag racers.
Timothy Leary.
Even more dreary.
Tune in Turn On Stroke out.
“ The left is hell-bent on drug legalization. It started with cannabis, but it will not end with cannabis.”
Every thing the left does is for incrementalism. The current goal is never the end goal. When gay marriage was legalized it was not to let people who love each other to commit to one another. The goal was to normalize pedophilia and adoption for pedophiles. It had zero to do with gays. I am unsure the exact goal of drug legalization, but I suspect it has to do with creating an entire generation of burnouts incapable of taking care of themselves who will vote for anybody who will keep the fix coming and who will have to surrender their children to the state
I don’t consider marijuana is a gateway drug a decent argument. Weed has been used here since the same time as alcohol. I don’t think smoking weed is “good”, but I think it’s better legalized than criminalized. I’m DOT drug and alcohol tested, so it won’t change a thing in my life. I just don’t mind if people smoke weed. I’ll take a stoned person over a drunk person every time.
Bravo!!
You'll probably change your opinion if a stoned person causes a fatal accident, killing someone you love.
Hope he gets a batch with that Mexican synthetic fentanyl in it
This guy is an idiot
He was absolutely amazing. That song....heartbreaking.
Absolutely.
Marijuana isn’t a drug it’s a religion. People who use cocaine, heroin, alcohol don’t care if you “insult” the drugs. People who marijuana get angry if you “insult” pot. Marijuana is perfect and nothing bad has ever happened because of marijuana in the history of the universe.
“Weed has been used here since the same time as alcohol.”
That’s an absurd statement. A hundred years ago, in 1921, what percent of the adult population had consumed beer, wine or distilled spirits? Probably >90%. And what percent had used cannabis? Probably less than 1 percent. I remember my father saying that in the 1940s, at his large urban high school, there were plenty of drinkers and (tobacco) smokers, but he knew not a single person who used marijuana. When Robert Mitchum was busted for it in 1948, they were all shocked because they barely had any idea what it was.
That’s so true. Such a contrast to tobacco smokers, the overwhelming majority of whom make no effort to claim that their drug of choice is healthy. But with cannabis, don’t you dare suggest that their use of the psychosis-inducing weed is any worse than, say, eating a marshmallow.
You should work on your reading comprehension skills.
I didn’t say used as often, and your numbers are pulled from your ass. N=1 is meaningless statistically.
All people that smoke weed act the same?
That’s nonsense and you know it.
I don’t advocate weed at all, but it’s far less deleterious on society than alcohol is. By far.
Unbelievable. Simply unbelievable. As a black tenured prof he knows there is nothing Columbia can do to him.
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