Carl Hart Quotes

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

I don't really care who's doing drugs in the NBA as long as the scene isn't adversely affecting my team and teammates. I've known enough drug users-going as far back as grade school and the streets of New York-not to view them as pariahs or lost souls. I've certainly smoked more than my quota of weed.

There's been no top authority saying what marijuana does to you. I really don't know that much about it. I tried it once but it didn't do anything to me.

It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.

If the data do not prove that indexing wins, well, the data are wrong.

We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories - and that's the only way we can experience the world.

I was bangin’ 7 gram rocks and finishing them because that’s how I roll

In terms of coke, the only money I ever thought about was that dollar bill I had stuck up my nose.

I don’t take drugs because if I did I’d love them–I’d be a junkie. And because I’m Jewish, I’d probably be a dealer, too.

They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.

My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

I'd say pot has been a break-even proposition for me.

I have never tried [cocaine] in my entire life. I've never even seen it. ... I am also way too high-strung. I can't even take a Sudafed. Can you imagine? My God. I think my heart would explode.

I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions. You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried.

I've got this weird body chemistry that I don't like to get high. I'm not going to say I never tried drugs. I tried most everything. I didn't try injectables. But I didn't like it.

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

I haven't smoked marijuana since I was at NYU.

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

I do lots of other drugs but I smoke pot maybe 5-10 times a year now. I used to smoke it all the time, but I don't, and I haven't for awhile. That's just because it makes me - and I'm not saying this about everybody else - but it makes me kind of dumb and self-conscious.

My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those insights.

The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of Prejudices.

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

Regardless, I decided to never take LSD again.

Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.

I was a big pothead for a short period. That was what ticked me off that I shouldn't go near hard drugs, actually, because I would consume the stuff as if it was going out of style and it rapidly occurred to me that if I ever tried a hard drug, the same thing would happen, so I never did.