The waiting area of the Brooklyn Family Courthouse isn’t where you’d expect to find a Columbia University neuroscientist. But Carl Hart isn’t your average professor. His credentials are sterling: Hart […]
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Black Marijuana Smokers vs White Marijuana Smokers On the Takeaway, we talked about drug arrest rate in black communities vs white communities, who benefits from it, and what we should do
Black Smokers Arrested for Marijuana Possession at Far Higher Rate Read More »
Dr. Carl Hart wrote High Price because drug myths and drug hysteria has led to the drug war which has resulted in a high price paid by the poor.
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High Price is the best autobiography written since the Autobiography of Malcolm X – Jim Vrettos
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In a recent piece for The New York Times, psychology professor and drug researcher Carl Hart argues that misconceptions about the impacts of crack cocaine, and drugs more generally, on the black
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85% of those sentenced for crack cocaine offenses are black, despite the fact that the majority of users of the drug are white.
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Transcript Question: How do you see drugs portrayed in the media? Hart: Some people get it right but often times, they get it wrong particularly when we think about drugs
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