"I don’t advocate weed at all"
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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"I don’t advocate weed at all"
“Alcoholic beverages are too ingrained in the culture to ban. Prohibition was tried, and it failed.”
Marijuana has been in widespread use for generations - and its prohibition was failing even before the first state legalized.
You, your mom, and your sister ... very nice.
When you get NAILED,
ad hominem is all you have to offer.
There’s a lot of stoner mythology about “widespread use” of their favorite drug. Sure, there was a long history of hashish smoking in the middle east, but, no, in the U.S. there was nothing close to “widespread” cannabis smoking until the early 1900s. Aside from hash in the Arab countries, the practice of smoking marijuana in pipes and cigarettes really dates to the mid-19th century Mexico when the practice was taken up by farm hands, prisoners and the criminal class. It spread to the U.S. with Mexican farm workers, but even within that population, its practice wasn’t widespread. To pretend that cannabis is engrained in the culture in the same way as beer or wine or distilled spirits is a delusion only a stoner could love.
Where does he get his drugs, legally or illegally? If illegally, he’s supporting the black, Hispanic and Cartel gangs from here to Mexico and Colombia.
How much money is he spending on drugs that he could be spending on his family (assuming he has one that needs a supporting father/wage earner).
The important slogan, aimed at blacks in the past, is “The mind is a terrible thing to waste”. Guess herr professor missed that public service message.
It makes it sound so respectable.
No, you do heroin because you’re a junkie.
Previous TS/SCI and current DOT drug test program.
Shouldn’t you be posting articles about Israel and how Jews are super awesome?
When I was 17, my older sister had concert tickets one evening. Her boyfriend couldn’t go for some reason, so I went with her. It was a couple of guys I had never heard of, named John Prine and Steve Goodman. Excellent show, as you’d imagine.
You don’t “nail” anyone with pictures of monkeys, boob.
“To pretend that cannabis is engrained in the culture in the same way as beer or wine or distilled spirits”
Whack that straw man.
I notice you didn’t dispute this point: “Marijuana [...] prohibition was failing even before the first state legalized.”
You potheads nail yourselves repeatedly with each post you make promoting your beloved pot.
In a thread on the topic of heroin,
Jew Hater EEGator can’t control himself enough to keep from dragging in his pathological fixation on Jews and Israel.
To support the legality of pot, or alcohol, or tobacco, is not to “promote” them. If you disagree, state for each substance whether you promote it or want it illegal.
A professor who does hard drugs, WHAT surprise.
He is an idiot, a complete idiot which seems to be a requirement today for Professors. What will happen is that before he knows it, his tolerance for it will go up and he will need more and more to get his ‘high’ until it gets to an all consuming habit where he will focus on nothing else. Everything about his life will go out the window, his family, his health, his job, eating, bathing and very fast he will end up on the street like a zombie a complete slave to heroin.
“that the demonization of drug use – not drugs themselves – [has] been a tremendous scourge on America, not least in reinforcing this country’s enduring structural racism”
Of COURSE! There it is, why am I not surprised? The “R” word had to be part of this.
Does this jerk know that a great deal of heroin today is cut with fentanyl and his “little snorts” can quite easily kill him should he come across it? All it takes is a few grains
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