Decriminalizing Drugs with Dr. Carl Hart

Factually! with Adam Conover

Headgum

Comedy

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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This week, Dr. Carl Hart - professor of neuroscience and psychology at Columbia - joins Adam to argue that we’ve been approaching recreational drugs all wrong. Together they discuss how we have historically exaggerated the harmful effects of drugs on the brain, how stigma and criminalization create greater adverse effects than the drugs themselves, and more. Dr. Hart’s new book, Drug Use for Grown Ups, is out now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum Podcast. I don't know what to think I don't know what to say
0:16.0	Yeah, that's all right
0:19.0	Yeah, that's all right
0:21.0	Yeah, that's all gay
0:22.0	I don't know anything.
0:28.0	Hello everyone, welcome to Factually.
0:30.0	I'm Adam Conover.
0:31.0	Let's talk about drugs. We've got a really screwy view of drugs in this country, don't we? I mean, I was brought up,
0:39.3	late 80s, early 90s, the dare years, a climate of maximum fear.
0:45.0	They were telling us that illegal drugs were everywhere and they were bad, very bad.
0:49.5	They killed people and destroyed neighborhoods.
0:52.3	And if you did these illicit substances once
0:54.8	just once your life was going down the shitter and your parents would be left to
0:59.6	cry at your closed casket funeral if they weren't too ashamed to show up. On the other hand,
1:05.8	oh don't forget legal drugs from certified medical professionals, oh those are no problem.
1:11.6	They were medicine and they were being handed out in larger and
1:15.3	larger quantities. But you know as I grew up I started seeing some issues with this because on the bottle of Adderol I was prescribed for my
1:25.6	A.D. I know I know you call it A.D. But when I was diagnosed we called it A.D.
1:30.7	So I'm sticking with it, God damn damn it when I looked at that bottle prescribed
1:34.6	me by my doctor it said on it amphetamine salts amphetamine salt so it's like
1:40.8	hold on a second amphetamines isn't that one of those scary drugs they were just telling me about in
1:46.6	dare after school?
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