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Neuroscientist Carl Hart: People will always use drugs, we must learn to live with this fact

Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 08/03/2015 - 12:40

Carl Hart, a neuroscientist and professor at Columbia University, has given a powerful TED talk arguing for the decriminalisation of all drugs, challenging classist and racist stereotypes about drug use and calling for a new approach to the consumption of psychoactive substances.

Hart stresses that drug users must not be demonised and all lumped into the same category with a couple of powerful examples:

- "I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood. I came from a community in which drug use was prevalent. I kept a gun in my car. I engaged in petty crime. I used and sold drugs. But I stand before you today also -- emphasis on also -- a professor at Columbia University who studies drug addiction."

- "80 to 90 percent of

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