Color In Spaces : Episode 2 – Dr. Carl Hart & Heroin

In this episode, my co-host Ali Bey and I, Om, discuss Dr. Carl Hart, an American Neuroscientist, and professor of neuroscience and psychology at Columbia University. He is also the author of his controversial book ‘Drug Use For Grown-ups’.  We talked about Dr. Hart being and Black man promoting such a taboo subject, along with societal emotions, biases, and hypocritical norms that we all exhibit. We would surely love to get Dr. Hart on the podcast one day since he lives in NY and we do too.

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Music – Floral Mind by Shiruky. Found on Epidemicsound dot com

Show notes :
Corrections – Om gave out the wrong  Twitter handle. It’s @spaces_color  https://twitter.com/spaces_color

Conversation time stamps –

[04:30]  <Neurons to Nirvana> 2013 – by Oliver Hockenhull. Link here[13:17] Dr. Hart has done petty crime. ‘Hart grew up in an impoverished Miami neighborhood, engaging in petty crime and the use and sale of drugs.’  Link here
[14:30]  In 2001, Portugal became the first country in the world to decriminalize the consumption of all drugs. Link here

[15:11]  Why we don’t use the metric system – Om says it’s because they want to be special, however, this Britannica’s article says otherwise: time and money. Link here

[20:30]  Dr. Hart claims the drug is not addictive. /It’s an addictive personality that drives the addiction. Link here

[20:40]  The cocaine study of mice. Link here

[21:45]  The state of Mind is influenced by your environment. Link here

[27:20]  Private prisons keeping the beds filled determining federal funding. Link here

[30:00]  Pardon and admission of guilt. Link here

[31:48]  The Insider leaving out Carl Hart’s Neuroscientist title and presenting him only as a psychology professor on their image cation. This is suspect as hell. Link here

[38:02]  Snorting vs injecting heroin. Link here

[38:20]  Does the buccal cavity include the nasal passage. No! Link here