"The policy that received more attention particularly in the past decade and a half or so has been the US cocaine policy, the differential treatment of crack versus powder cocaine and question is how my research impacted my view on policy. Clearly that policy is not based on the weight of the scientific evidence. That is when the policy was implemented, the concern about crack cocaine was so great that something had to be done and congress acted in the only way they knew how, they passed policy and that's what a responsible society should do."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Carl Hart

#Past Quotes #Attention Quotes #Done Quotes

“Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.”
“When we were told it's impossible, we knew it's the right way to be done.”
“One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.”
“I don't care if we're out of it or not, if I've got a chance to pitch, I want to.”
“I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.”

Source : Lillie Devereux Blake (1874). “Fettered for Life, Or, Lord and Master: A Story of To-day”, p.53
“Dancing can be addictive if you like it.”
“You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That's why I like doing what I do.”

Source : "Michael Ealy On Set Interview UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. August 22, 2011.
“Our party remains as firm as this rock and will not be divided by any force in Germany.”

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