From one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject, a powerful argument that the greatest damage from drugs flows from their being illegal, and a hopeful reckoning with the possibility of their use as part of a responsible and happy life<\/p>\n

Dr. Carl L. Hart, Ziff Professor at Columbia University and former chair of the Department of Psychology, is one of the world’s preeminent experts on the effects of so-called recreational drugs on the human mind and body. Dr. Hart is open about the fact that he uses drugs himself, in a happy balance with the rest of his full and productive life as a colleague, husband, father, and friend. In Drug Use for Grown-Ups, he draws on decades of research and his own personal experience to argue definitively that the criminalization and demonization of drug use–not drugs themselves–have been a tremendous scourge on America, not least in reinforcing this country’s enduring structural racism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hart’s argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both powerful and timely . . . when it comes to the legacy of this country’s war on drugs, we should all share his outrage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"product_cat":[54],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-228","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","product_cat-sciences"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rank-push.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rank-push.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rank-push.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rank-push.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rank-push.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rank-push.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rank-push.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rank-push.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}