Dr. Carl Hart DEBUNKS Why ‘Street Drugs’ Are Illegal | Aubrey Marcus Podcast

[@AubreyMarcusPod]

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[@ilah5970]

Dr. Hart is one of the most insightful, advisable people of our time. He’s a idol

[@AHOY_MATEY]

Dr Carl is a legend.

[@jasmineh8482]

Countries like Portugal where all drugs have been decriminalized actually have very low rates of crime and drug overdose because there is no longer the subconscious hedonistic pull towards the taboo. Once things are no longer taboo, the novelty wears off.

[@jm4663]

It's not all about novelty.

[@faza553]

Where there's Taboo, there's power.

[@WyrmAbyss1214]

I wouldn’t chalk it up to just that. Substances have far greater function than just hedonistic pursuit. There is greater education and awareness in those countries as well as better addiction services that prove individuals can partake in certain more stigmatized substances like heroin while still also fulfilling their adult responsibilities. Carl Hart’s book does a great job outlining this. Overdoses are due to lack of education and the taboo further reinforces alienation and judgment towards individuals. The draw of taboo exists but the lack of resources and education plays a far greater role in overdoses and addiction. Less of crime is because these pursuits aren’t illegal and can’t be run by crime groups

[@robertcronin6603]

Very interesting.

[@Kudown]

@@jm4663whats ur point?

[@Dreamaster2012]

I love the fact that his super grounded attention challenges you/us in many unsuspecting ways that take the dialogue into our imbedded personal unconscious assumptions. This kind of thing has the power to alter our personal algorithms in ways we don't expect. And the self reinforced ad based web worlds can truly be revised.

[@Desiree.Miller]

Woah, Beautifully crafted statement ❤

[@magichandsdownes]

I feel as though certain drugs play a role in our development. First time saying this to anyone other than my circle but I used Cocaine for 4 years and honestly I am happy I went through what I did. I am no longer that woman because I have learned I am full of ENERGY and its okay to go to bed. As well as it should be legal so there is less violence around it and I bet we could make it something that is very helpful. Let people be. Great conversation and SO HAPPY to be a part of this conversation.

[@koltoncrane3099]

Ya I think people should watch the economist Milton Friedman lectures on why drugs should be legal. Like you said it’d reduce overall violence but sadly people don’t consider that a valid point

[@JT0007]

LSD is a drug that makes you better 💯

[@BrainboxOfficial_1]

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[@Gnarmarmilla]

Cocaine is a marvelous drug but when it is sold illegally and solely for the purpose of making money, people do evil with it. No instructions on the bag, no dosage guidelines, no contraindications, no warnings…that’s why people will tend to abuse it more. I pray to God that He will make it legal so that you may use it for your well being soon.

[@kilo.nine.7773]

Countries that have decriminalized drugs have seen disease rates drop as well as deaths from overdose.

[@kaine3805]

That’s half of the story the countries that decriminalize all drugs we’re very liberal in the first place. That’s like saying people that drink wine live longer

[@kilo.nine.7773]

@@kaine3805 as if the United States isn’t liberal enough for this type of FREEDOM…. Come on man

[@prayunceasingly2029]

@@kilo.nine.7773 "Come on man..." - Joe Biden

[@prayunceasingly2029]

@@kilo.nine.7773 Freedom to do any drug you want = Freedom from consequences it brings to society

[@kilo.nine.7773]

@@prayunceasingly2029 Yeah….. exactly why I said it

[@toriscott1881]

I truly love Dr. Carl Hart! Everything he says resonates! Much respect!!!

[@annabughman1886]

I’m excited to listen to this. Self-ownership is a concept that isn’t grasped by many. Interested to hear his perspective.

[@prayunceasingly2029]

Tell that to the people who have to deal with meth addicts. Self ownership for a junkie that can't control themselves means nothing.

[@annabughman1886]

@@prayunceasingly2029 That’s where mental health treatment vs criminality can come into play. This principle isn’t always comfortable (especially for me, I’m personally Christian and quite “conservative”) and it’s needed in the discomfort of certain actions that don’t meet societal “norms”. But it helps me to differentiate between what is governed by morality and by rule of law. Is it infringing on the body or the rights of others? If not, it falls under self-ownership or autonomy.

[@DanTejedaFit]

@@prayunceasingly2029 Dude, did you even watch the podcast? It’s not the substance which is the issue, it’s the person’s trauma and life choices which need to be the focus.

[@prayunceasingly2029]

@@DanTejedaFit Thanks. I didn't watch the whole video.

[@snailcage]

@@prayunceasingly2029 Why would someone use street meth if they could just buy Desoxyn from a pharmacy the same way they buy Cheetos?

[@thenarrativeandwhyyouloveit]

Best discussion I’ve ever heard.

[@ConversationGym]

Excellent podcast! From someone who was brought up on the War on Drugs, and This is your Brain on Drugs... and non-stop scary images and fear-mongering, this was truly refreshing. One serious concern I have that was not specifically addressed in regards to addiction: Aren't there differences between drugs that bind to our REWARD RECEPTOR - Dopamine - which therefore increase the likelihood of addiction, vs drugs that bind to the SEROTONIN receptor, which (although we need to be cautious not to deplete) are NOT addictive? I would be grateful to have Dr. Hart answer those scientific questions.

[@lisao6928]

Great question! I'd like to know the answer to that, as well!

[@chrisbarre8518]

90% of laws are not needed, keep it simple. Get rid of victimless crimes. Atleast you shouldn't be locked up. It's all about money and power.

[@kahlernygard809]

Thank you so much for having this man on and listening with an open mind !!!! He's a genius 👏

[@76blackwidow]

Thanks, this is Great! Only too short. I’m a huge fan of dr. Hart and his work and I’m so grateful. 💕

[@troyallenart817]

Love Dr.Carl!! His interview with Lex was Amazing!! Excited to here the Wisdom today☯️💯✌️😎👍💯☯️ Thanks for the Interview Bro!!🌻🌻

[@sharayahsunshine11]

There's a podcast Mark Watts released a few months ago of his Dad Alan exploring this topic during a lecture he did in the 60's. I highly recommend it because I feel he had a pretty balanced perspective about recreational drug use.

[@lwandie260]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m560qp-srNGqsLM Is this that podcast?

[@sharayahsunshine11]

@@lwandie260 Yep!

[@gatherfeather3122]

I'm in the middle of reading his book when this popped up on youtube :) It feels liberating!

[@karrieblennerhassett5370]

I think the bottom line is that each has a right to believe in what they choose. Dr Carl Hart is following his passion and that is awesome

[@prayunceasingly2029]

Freedom isn't an end in itself. It's a means to an end.

[@juliegrafe6841]

Buy this book! Dr. Hart is a remarkable and highly intelligent being that is breaking all the chains and rewriting our future ⛓ keep it going light bringers - love to you both ❤️❤️❤️

[@victoria2226]

Amazing conversation! 🙏✨❤️

[@LaurenOliviArt]

I’m open minded to this convo. It sparks things in me that make me want to turn it off but I’d rather listen and see his point of view. It’s important to hear what he is saying

[@ginadisantis2684]

I have a recipt from a drug company,in 1827 in Lancaster,Pa. where there was Herion,Cocain,Opium, on the recipt. done in quill pen n ink. I paid $100.00 for that org.paper back in 1978 lol still have it.

[@noamsharvit7218]

Thanks for this podcast it opened my mind!!

[@marcosluna7792]

WOW! I dont know why I hadnt expected this but it makes sense. Thanks to you two for all you do!

[@MsMergal03]

Thank you Dr Hart. You and Dr Gabor are reinforcement for what I've always felt was true. From the deepest parts of my heart and soul. You are amazing thank you for all your hardwork and compassion. People like you will create a better future for our children. Your valued beyond belief and I continue my research also; very similar principals and investigations. Keep up the fabulous work. Our society needs more Dr's cut from this cloth.

[@erichorvath81]

Talk about a frustrating topic! It's especially infuriating to me that businesses in states where cannabis is recreational/legal are still testing for it (the long term test, not the one that shows use in individuals from the past 12 hours).. but "EVERYONE is hiring", right? It should be at each of our discretion, to prefer cannabis over pharmaceutical/chemicals, in order to quell our negative thoughts.

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

What we choose to put in our bodies should be none of anyone else’s business!

[@erichorvath81]

@@larsonfamilyhouse right! Some unwind with an alcoholic beverage at the end of the night; now that it's legal within my state (and knowing I do not like the way I feel on alcohol), I'd love some consideration of this when applying for work.

[@budgreen100]

Aubrey! You got Dr Hart!!! Just started to listen, EPIC!

[@morganjacobsen3905]

💯agree with Dr. Carl Hart. Full body Autonomy. Legalize. Regulate. Educate and harm reduction.

[@ilb735]

Loving the mind of this Guest, thank you for the introduction !💝

[@twinsight6021]

14 years of heavy addiction taught me a lot, and I agree with a lot of this. I definitely don't agree with some of the conversation around heroin. Particularly that the "fairy tale around heroin is made up". I was a heroin addict for a long time, there is no pain greater than kicking heroin cold turkey. To say that only 30% of heroin users are addicted seems insane to me, granted I don't have the numbers but I do have the experience, if you use heroin every day for two weeks, it would take you a week of sickness to live without it, take heroin daily for 6 months? That recovery will take a month before feeling well enough to function. Fentanyl is definitely the real killer here, I've woken up in a hospital 14 times because of it. Fentanyl is china's modern day missile, there needs to be a war on drugs but It isn't against the user and it isn't waged in the U.S.! Thank you for having open discussion on this topic very well done, there needs to be more of this!!

[@morganharlow3620]

Agreed. I live in Tennessee and the overdoses are insane. ..been one. Luckily I got away from it.

[@twinsight6021]

@@morganharlow3620 glad to have you on this earth still brother! It's one of those things that holds weight with anyone, but for someone who's been through it, it hits a little deeper. I hope you are doing well and standing strong in your recovery, a battle like that brews a different breed of people, we need you here fam 💪✊

[@morganharlow3620]

@@twinsight6021 yes! And thank u. I’m female tho. lol! Same well wishes back to you!

[@twinsight6021]

@@morganharlow3620 🤭 lol 😅 I stand with you as family either way! Stay vigilant sister, history will keep repeating itself without the sage wisdom of those who have endured the struggles personally. (Why I went all Ghandi on you I don't know lmfao, but I do mean it 💯)

[@Goodvibes-gu8dv]

Yeah, I remember him stating on Rogan that opiate withdrawal is like a bad flu. If the flu felt like that we’d all live in isolated pods. I love his open- minded, grounded, respectful tone, but IDK where the “only 30% of heroin users are addicted” stat comes from, or how one could ever get accurate data on that subset. Regardless, these open-minded conversations are unbelievably important and I loved listening.

[@BestCosmologist]

No one has permission to govern my peaceful choices. Period. It doesn't matter what kind of threats/rules/laws are initiated.

[@prayunceasingly2029]

Peaceful choices can lead to violent consequences that involve the lives of other people. That's what many drugs do unfortunately. Theft and burglary by junkie as well, is a non stop occurrence, because of addiction. Downgrade of one leads to more downgrade of society.

[@humblecatpie4512]

@@prayunceasingly2029 maybe you should worry less about society and more about the pain of people. Society doesn't bleed or suffer. Individuals do.

[@prayunceasingly2029]

@@humblecatpie4512 People make up societies. But good point about individuals suffering. We all suffer in some way. Some more than others

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[@victoria2226]

Opening my mind! 🙏 I have been wondering about this recently with all the vax /mask talk. I love this. Thank you 🙏✨❤️ Too often ‘we’ are treated like we are stupid and not thinking for our own well-being. That we can’t live our own lives. This has rubbed me wrong and now I know why. It’s wrong. We the people are not stupid or uninformed. There is definitely more room for us to be supportive of each other, create better smaller communities and allow everyone to be accepted - which I think will create a place where people are not abusing themselves. ♥️

[@prayunceasingly2029]

It's two opposite extremes, a society that forces a medical treatment on people vs a society that says take any drug and then society deals with the consequences not the junkie

[@victoria2226]

@@prayunceasingly2029 society allows items/objects that are harmful to humans and the planet right now…..as consumers we can choose whether to partake or not. Mental health should be at the forefront, not vilification. 🙏✨❤️

[@nadinelafrance5499]

Shopping addiction sex addiction gambling addiction. This is my definition of addiction it's like falling inlove. The only thing on a person's mind is that one thing like food and shopping it doesn't have to be a drug.

[@MrAudi220]

I am clean for 9 months now, and i will share my opinion on the matter how i experienced drug use, i started smoking weed at age 21 and i stopped at age 34, and i lost the greatest years of my young life wasted in a haze while life past me by, i used to smoke around 15 joints a day and i did it to get answers in life because of childhood trauma and to numb my crohnical pains(crohns since 2001) and to deal with the stress of daily life as a empath, and by using drugs i took the wrong route because our society doesn't provide the right guidance for people and cases like me because every payed professional doesn't treat the problem they just try to numb you with other stuff, quitting weed was the best thing i did for myself in the last 15 years and as a user i used to think that legalization of drugs was needed, now as a clean person i believe this is the worst thing we can do, we need to grow out of the thinking that we need external substances to go internal for answers to the pains we carry, no we need to grow up and us the intuition that the creator gave us and recognize that we are a million miles above whatever plant medicine is out there as long as we believe in our self and start getting back to mother earth and father universe, it's the material world that makes us crave for answers we think we might find in the drugs, your higher self is the greatest drugs there is, ask yourself did shaolin monks use drugs? no they us the time in this reincarnation to learn how to completely use all the tools that came with this body and mind by explaring it and by removing all the desires of material possessions and focus on dedication and service to others the reach their goals while the western world is looking for best next fast fix.Like i said thats my take on things, we need to get out of this western mentality box they shoved us in and start living truelly in service to ourself and others.

[@willmorse7214]

Carl is right, but it's hard to let go of a lifetime of bad information. If Budweiser is legal then all other "drugs" should be legal ...

[@kilo.nine.7773]

Over 25 countries around the world have decriminalized drugs to some degree, including Portugal, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and Germany.

[@jimmybolton8473]

In my opinion meth and alcohol were the most evil situations ive been in

[@mattyb808]

agreed...

[@adamelliott9581]

Meth will make ur colors go grey… long term not worth doing meth lmao

[@guttahgang2300]

I noticed he talks about natural drugs....cocaine, heroin, cannibus....

[@aussieoutlier]

@@adamelliott9581that’s not everybody’s experience

[@elusion23one41]

What about cannabis to treat chronic pain as an alternative to opioids?

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[@joedavis4150]

Honestly, after 65 years of study, it seems likely that the plain of jars in the Golden Triangle is an ancient work of art honoring the Opium poppy. The jars are shaped like poppy pods, and are scattered randomly like poppies in a field.

[@joedavis4150]

In thinking about Liberty, William Burroughs said that we need three things for happiness... purpose, function, and conflict.

[@sleighridefishing9027]

I use Green Malay Kratom every day for my severe nerve damage in my back and my anxiety for my job and if I didn't have it I wouldn't be able to sit at a desk all day from all my injuries from ice hockey and football!

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

Where do you get it? It’s not available in all the states anymore. I tried it and liked it for pain back when you could buy it most anywhere but never looked too hard into a good brand. Have you listened to Hamilton talk about it? I’m always looking for ways to help pain.

[@gratefuldrake1115]

Mind blown! This was excellent, very eye opening!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@SpiritGirlSF]

I hope he addresses the epidemic among the homeless people living on the streets of major city's like San Francisco where we've recently been given a new nickname of San Fentanyl. Currently there is a huge uproar about it with the Citizens vs City Hall at the moment.

[@prayunceasingly2029]

There should be, San fentanyl is a feces filled tent city.

[@toriscott1881]

Look into Gabor Mate

[@snailcage]

People only use fentanyl because they can’t go to a pharmacy and buy the drugs they actually want to use. Fentanyl is a desperation drug and a product of the war on drugs. A direct consequence of drug prohibition.

[@SpiritGirlSF]

@@snailcage I was on fentanyl patches a couple of decades ago, they never came with any serious warnings. The way it's prescribed is not the best because it wears off sooner than the time dosage prescribed, very tightly controlled and even more so now. I still am prescribed pain meds that I'm weaning myself off so its just a huge trap I wish I never got stuck in. But never will I turn to using street drugs these days and risk death even more no matter how much pain or withdrawal I'm in because there's Kratom which has helped me wean myself to half the dose I was on and it can be bought over the counter BUT one does not experience the high that most narcotics give and thats what many folks are after, they want to numb out because their lives are difficult and for other reasons. War on drugs is also a war using drugs as a weapon against the people, what a way to weaken a nation!

[@tishashort6053]

I feel like there are certain drugs that make people do evil things. I know first hand, I was a meth addict for many years. I would NEVER want my children to become addicted, and stuck in that life. Unless you've been a part of that, you don't know what it does to you. Those were the darkest moments of my life, and I was absolutely an evil horrible person, and I did hurt a lot of people. I even came close to murdering more than 1 person a few times during my addiction.

[@shannabrookstencza4673]

That is very unfortunate, but I know quite a few people that have used methamphetamine to get through very difficult times and it has been helpful. Just my opinion but from my experience, drugs only bring out what we have in our shadows. If you were taken into a place of evil, it's important to explore that now from a clear head space.

[@rikmichaels9233]

The drug didn’t cause the addiction

[@ryandaley3351]

All drugs should be legal. Money should be spent on education and rehabilitation.

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[@chyfields]

All pain killers are mind altering; people take them to suppress their perception of pain. Psychedelics were created by our Creator for a reason, so do we really have the right to deny this freedom?

[@EverythingIsDivine]

Amazing!!!

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[@elusion23one41]

It's very true that some people do have privileges that others don't have. Not every person who takes drugs is an addict.

[@sleighridefishing9027]

I feel we should have "safe places" to be able to alter our consciousness under professional supervision. Like having big open areas or almost like gymnasiums with different things to do or to play with. Where we can be in a safe environment while under the effects of different substances and not be a danger to our selves or others.

[@jm4663]

Currently camping music festivals facilitates this

[@sleighridefishing9027]

@J M Chilli! This is very true! I've had a lot of fun at music festivals from 18-24! Taught me a lot about myself and so much more!

[@StadiumHandz]

Love dr hart great interview Aubrey

[@ilb735]

Meanwhile those good laws are seemingly useless against some wanting to allow harmful DRUGS / PHARMACEUTICALS to be pumped into ignorant / unconsenting others WITHOUT CONSEQUENCE to the perpetrators of such Evil Crimes 😥👹💩

[@b.melakail]

Shhh and take your liver/bone/heart altering poke

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

All drugs should be legal. It’d stop tons of ODs and deaths and defund gangs and cartels and criminals #mybodymychoice #stopthewarondrugs

[@prayunceasingly2029]

@@marilyn9138 It doesn't stop with drugs (which the working taxpayers have to pay for). It continues with no arrest or incarceration for junkies that act out and steal, and free housing for the junkies, probably free food. All for people that threw their own lives away for a high. Not saying there probably wasn't a reason whether it was mental illness or bad life conditions or pure irresponsibility. But they will eventually be babied by the state for everything if they can rationalize giving away free drugs. Society will be about who can get the most free stuff and the incentive to excel will be gone. Look at sanfrancisco.

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[@sparkleandshineguidance1786]

There is too much money 💰 in the prison system…bingo. So much of this is so necessary for people to hear. Imagine if we invested in our youth instead of criminalizing them..

[@DanTejedaFit]

Absolutely. So much of our society is absolutely backwards; religion, economics, drug usage, etc.

[@GREATLORDPOOH]

It would solve alot of problems

[@prayunceasingly2029]

And it would create a lot too.

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[@GREATLORDPOOH]

@@prayunceasingly2029 maybe you should pray on that

[@faunwillow]

Humans have always wanted to change their consciousness. The Sumerians had 200 recipes for beer. They say the Anninaki taught them how to brew soooooo In the beginning it was.

[@hellacooook]

yall need to get involved at the state and federal level of politics. first we got to remind people to value their heart, to put full confidence into their life! we been battling a war on minds since the beginning.

[@barbie3139]

as long as those who use drugs recreationally don't expect me to pay because they are not being self sufficient and are paying their fair share of taxes like the rest of us, and they don't drive or hurt others, then I'm ok with it. God knows chronic pain patients can't get pain relief because they are treated like drug addicts who are making it up, so it would help them.

[@rikmichaels9233]

The modern Jim Crow = the drug war

[@asiguere]

this podcast is fuego

[@aussieoutlier]

I love Dr. Carl but I think it’s time he went on record regarding his opinion of crystal meth it only ever gets a cursory mention. Personally I’m in favour of it but I’m curious to know his experience and opinion if any.

[@reacherous_LOTJSR]

Not judging.....I've self-medicated plenty and had vicodine for pain with a torn shoulder

[@freee_bird]

Very fitting for Pisces season, I’m looking forward to this!!

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[@Baker8933]

There's a big difference in substances that expand consciousness and ones that constrict it. One chemical structure can give a feeling of love and insight, the other helps us make excuses to hurt one another habitually.

[@aaronwatter]

I would argue that love, insight and other feelings are not contained solely within chemical structures, and these differences are more socially and culturally constructed than we usually suppose. And how can you be sure that the chemical that encourages YOU to make excuses, does not expand or enrich MY experience?

[@Baker8933]

I can't be sure, I don't know you. Maybe having everything legal would reduce overdose because of safe supply. Or maybe it would cause tent city to arise everywhere.

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[@alc2979]

Yes

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[@bikerslow2598]

Just like Portugal no?

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[@koltoncrane3099]

Well one great point is by Milton Friedman. If drugs were legal overall there’d be reduced violence.

[@csepke2]

Alcohol is a legal drug. I promise, reducing violence isn’t what it does. I’ve seen way too many violence in families due to drinking. This idea of legalization only works in a hypothetical world, where people don’t have mental and emotional issues carried from childhood. Where every human gets help in form of therapy, counseling etc. to overcome these inner battles. Such a world does not exist.

[@curiousgirl.4134]

Hi, I haven’t started to watch this yet but started reading peoples replies and I am a 57 y/o female and was born curious. I started smoking weed freshman year in HS. I then tried all the speed pills, cocaine, quaaludes, mushrooms, LSD and alcohol. By 20, I was done with all that because I made a decision that I didn’t want to be “altered” all the time and began a journey of off&on behavior depending on what was happening in my life but I consciously knew I didn’t want to be a drug addict. I was happy to see marijuana legalized because I think it has benefits whereas alcohol has none. The problem with legalizing, is not all people are mature enough to handle drugs and/or can’t handle them physically/chemically. People also get addicted which means they can’t control their useage and how they behave. Thats the problem, not the desire to want to alter your mind. Thats why there is DUI’s, irrational behavior where you can’t trust people, so legalizing it all could cause mayhem in society unless we recognize addictions and not cry because we have to support those who have a weaker system. Everyone cries about helping out anyone paycheck wise through the government so not sure how it would work? Look at all the heroin addicts caused by opioids that were legal? Lots of crime from that too and that is to get money to support a habit. Maybe start a “Habit” house for the addicts and keep them seperated from society and keep feeding them drugs til they die because some people don’t wake up from their stupor. People are still buying weed illegally because its less expensive…why not use the military to go after the drug cartels and call it a war on drugs. Those guys are the real reason to bust. They don’t pay taxes, they are murderers and thugs. How are they contributing to the world by making everyone brain dead. The fact that drugs were not legal at least made me think twice about doing them or continuing to do them. Who wants to go to jail??

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

What were quaaludes like? And what was in the speed pills? Different sources say different ingredients for speed pills and I’m always curious every time they’re brought up:)

[@curiousgirl.4134]

@@larsonfamilyhouse Quaaludes were fun but was like being drunk 10x’s over. Just like cocaine, sex for a woman was good on them. Wasn’t a fan of speed and don’t know what they were cut with (white crosses, blacks etc) because all it did was make your heart beat extremely fast and made you irritable after you came down but people took it because it kept them awake to study or they felt like superman when playing sports, however the come down not so good and it was super bad for you

[@aaronwatter]

"...Look at all the heroin addicts caused by opioids that were legal..." While it is true that most people using illicit opioids first used prescription opioids (though not necessarily legally prescribed to them)... The vast majority of people who are prescribed opioids never develop an addiction. Even when this does occur, to what extent is it actually caused by the drug itself? There's usually LOTS of better explanations for why somebody might develop an unhealthy compulsion to use a substance, than mere pharmacology. As for the "habit house" (i.e. asylum) idea of treatment, look into the history of how that worked in managing alcoholism leading up to alcohol prohibition. It seems that any approach to deepen stigma is not helpful with problematic substance use.

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[@christiansather8438]

Dr. Carl Hart isn't as clever as I remember him being when I was younger. He's a nice, smart, down to earth dude, but he's not on the level I remember him being... doesn't think deep enough... the way he dismisses religion and mythology was strange... pretty one dimensional. Drugs not bad is his motto/mantra it seems. He doesn't indulge in fantasy and is concerned with the here and now--and the here and now is quite horrific, yet mundane

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

Seems like quite a judgemental thing to say. Things actually I guess

[@christiansather8438]

​@@larsonfamilyhouse dude, I know i felt like a douche writing it. You can't not love Carl Hart, and was just thinking off the cuff here. I guess I was just pointing out that he doesn't think as subtly as I thought he did.

[@authentic_tone]

This is my first Real encounter with Dr.Carl’s ideas. And that same thought struck me as well. But seeing as though he was able to pierce through certain biases that Aubrey and I’m sure a lot of us, including me had on the approach to drugs - After watching the whole thing, I can definitely appreciate his super down to earth approach to the larger Human crisis/ shame against Hedonism.

[@dcscreenworks]

50:45 Aubrey gets it. Not sure Dr. Hart does, yet.

[@jacobbarnett1934]

Dr. Carl Heart fears and triggers are loud. My thoughts are much more aligned with Aubrey.

[@Lopersen]

Thank you! great podcast! If you happen to go to La Paz Bolivia, Visit the Coca museum.

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[@PsychonautAtom]

Tramadol is purely synthetic. Kratom contains Mitragynine and 7-hydroxy-mitragynine.

[@lisasiawild5816]

I agree that our language makes unproductive distinctions but I also believe using terms like “plant medicine” talks about intention in a way that can be a-moral. It’s to say we’re going to do something with guidelines. There will be a container for the chaos. Some people want to walk into that container, some people’s medicine is in the chaos- annihilation. What if we created spaces for people to annihilate themselves off the streets. Would they safely come to their own zero point in the way they didn’t know they were seeking in the first place? I could see you coming up against your own edges during this episode, Aubrey. Much respect.

[@raccoonavi]

loved this guy on joe rogan

[@oodles86]

Chop city thriving!

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[@RosannaMiller]

The way people who don't know Dr Hart always mix up his words. AGAIN, he is for DECRIMINALIZATION NOT LEGALIZATION.

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[@andoros.7017]

this comment couldn't be further from the truth. you sound like a die hard fan so I think it would be beneficial for your case if you actually listened to what he says/read what he writes.

[@gatherfeather3122]

In Germany cannabis will finally be legalized in 2023. I knew it would happen at some point back in the 90s and 00s when I was a 15-18 yo heavy daily weed smoker. But it has taken us some time...

[@jgappsab]

There are countless places in the U.S. alone where drugs are used as if they were already legal. The ghettos, back-water towns, high income neighborhoods and in those places drugs affect more than just the person looking for pleasure. People act as if drug use happens inside a bubble and doesn't affect those around them. You have mothers, gathers, etc., spending money on their pleasures and not feeding their families, not paying rent, neglecting their responsibilities and family. That doesn't take into account the crimes and accidents that drug pleasure seeking individuals cause and/or commit. I personally don't care if a person uses drugs or not. If they want to use drugs until they die, fine, do it. It's your body, but don't get others involved. I think personality traits play a big part in addiction as well. But until you can isolate the drug user and prevent them from negatively affecting others, measures have to be put in place. The laws, measures, methods are far from perfect but if anyone has a better idea please step up. How can we let people get high but not have to deal with the people who can't handle their shit.

[@andoros.7017]

There are already existing laws that would penalize those who "can't handle their shit" sans involving drugs in the legalities. Theft, child neglect, violence etc etc. are all punishable offenses alone and if someone who happens to be a drug user commits one of them, then they should be held accountable. There are plenty of non drug users who commit crimes that effect other's lives, and plenty of drug users who don't commit any crimes that effect other's lives so it's a flawed argument/system to illegalize the sole use of any substance in itself. i wont bother going down the alcohol hypocrisy debate...

[@spiritualpriestess11]

I'm absolutely open to exploring this and I believe very much in freedom. However, I feel we need to build up the individuals in our society and shift the collective, educate and empower first. What's difficult with drugs is for those of us who have addicts in our family or have seen how drugs can overtake someone. I've seen more of that in life than those who can use substances thoughtfully and not put that substance over everything. As a woman, I've been put in bad positions even just drinking alcohol or being sober and being around men drinking. I have two parents who have abused drugs off and on and I've seen the affects of that and how it's tore apart families. Witnessing what other people have been through has an imprint and people using drugs can become extremely self serving and not themself. People can behave extremely diff on substances. This intelligent, compassionate, beautiful and articulate man may find benefits from drugs and be able to use them mindfully but how many people can do that? I don't think their should be no drugs, I think we need a healthier society and then either we wouldn't need to do them or they could be used therepeutically. Like anything their is differences from drugs, psychedelics vary very much from heroine and illicit different experiences. How can we deny that? I'm about choice but I'm about empowering people and leaning into our pain not medicating. Many people using drugs are self medicating and are chasing and burning through all their dopamine, seratonin.

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[@angusgus123]

Kratom is pronounced 'gruh-TOM'... Tom as in Tom & Jerry Gruh or guh with the same vowel sound as in 'but' or 'the', aka a schwa sound [ə]

[@WildRemedies]

I always thought they should legalize all drugs… It's kinda like saying you can't have that cookie… Then you do everything you can to get the cookie but if the cookie is there maybe just have one cookie instead of a whole box of cookies? I'm not sure

[@Michael-i8i4v]

We’re adults… no one has any business getting in our business unless we are harming another human… alcohol is ok and so should opium and meth and phencyclidine and 3,4, methylenedioxymethamphetamine…. Just stay educated on what your putting in your system

[@d33jaylyke]

As a recovered addict , i can honestly say I believe he's wrong on so many levels . Though he has some great points. FIRST of all, these "opiates" they're selling aren't reeal opiates .. it's worse then heoroin , it's more addicting and they know aexactly wtf they're doing. I have had countless peopel I know overdose. BUT they are overdosing because of like he said , a mix or whatever the case not the oxy or whatever by itself.. ALTHOUGH, these oxy pills etc that they sell are getting these people so addicted they don't care about the risks.. Big pharma is absolutely evil and they know what they're doing and giving.. the answer isn't to let these addicts keep going deeper into their addiction WITHOUT some sort of intervention. Maybe not as crazy strict as we have it but they need SOMETHING or they will most definately use until they find the one that kills them. They need to hit their own bottom but they'll never hit it and survive without getting pushed towards the healthy good way of life .. PERIOD... the problem isn't the drug itself it's th e person and wether they cross that line into addiction. And I'm sorry if your not an addict and have never had trouble stoping drugs you will never understand to the full extend of how almost near impossible it is for most to ever stop doing them. Most people are in denial and don't even realize they're addicted too.... I could go on and on.. haha ... ultimately it s spiritual sickness... and just because someone may not be as spiritually fit as you for you to not understand that I don't think you can judge to say some of the things dude is saying 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@MonkeyKing3333]

I think he's saying the attention should be taken away from the drug and towards the reasons for the addiction. As the majority have no problem taking these substances and it's been that way for a long time. Implementing rules under a bias like yours (no offence) would effect the majority who don't have an issue and worse those who need it for pain relief for example.

[@kahler6814]

Zac is right , you are biased and don't care how it affects others . Just yourself do to lack of control.

[@d33jaylyke]

@@MonkeyKing3333 thats cop out and most people who arent drug addicts or addicts in any way dont do these drugs at all lol... but to each its own... i see it as ignorance... as he and obviously you do not have addiction issues with drugs.. so its BIASED for you to be saying this ...

[@d33jaylyke]

@@kahler6814 you soudn just as ignorant but to each its own. everyone has an opinin. but from experience i respect his opions i just disagree and fnd it igorant to have such hard feelings on somethinghe doesnt know much about.

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[@courtneyw2141]

What would happen to the price of drugs if they were all free.

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[@0ksanchezfluidfire267]

Titan healing for titans!!!

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[@LiborTinka]

just say KNOW

[@Tyler.i.81]

Yes but hard drugs like heroin and cocaine should be subscribed like they did in the past

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[@Gabriel-k4g9w]

Achocol is the worst drug,so all drugs should be legal and taxed.

[@ogbackroadcryptobootleg]

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[@ItsMoonSmoke]

I never watched this podcast just started it but my app was saying I already watched it all? Conspiracy theory… they’re trying to make me not learn this experience of this topic…. 🤣

[@diamondunicorn2421]

It’s funny you can get out of a DUI easily by paying a Shit ton of money. But one drug possession charge your in their easily 5 year’s minimum. If I’m not correct, correct me.

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[@tishashort6053]

It was absolutely my choice to start using meth. I was 15 yrs old the first time, and I absolutely loved the feeling. My mother was killed in a drunk driving accident when I was 11, and the meth made me forget all that pain. It got to a point where I became very violent while using. I was arrested for felony possession, and a few months later for assault. For me it was a wake up call. The things I did while being an addict still disgust me at times. It becomes a problem when you become a violet person because of the drugs. Meth is one of those drugs that does hurt the people that aren't even using it.

[@andoros.7017]

its an immature perspective and selfishly narrow minded to place blame a whole substance's existence on the anecdotal fact that it happened to not agree with your system/your inability to use self control while using it.

[@joedavis4150]

Great podcast. Thank you.... to see a healthy opium culture, go look at pictures of hill-tribe opium Harvest.... some of these healthy, beautiful ladies even have fancy headdresses that sport imitation poppy pods framing their faces.

[@jimmyramos3364]

Legalizing all drugs... what is that going to do to the workforce? What people do with thier own bodies when it comes to mind altering substances effects everyone everywhere.

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

It’s the same as alcohol, you can’t show up impaired and unable to work. There are plenty of countries that have decriminalized drugs and seen great benefits.

[@jimmyramos3364]

@@larsonfamilyhouse as a alcoholic I remember just showing up with the bad Monday morning hangover. Years later it went to hangovers and the shakes on work day mornings. A addiction never regress it always progresses. The problem with legalizing a epidemic is it will ruin a nation. Went to Denver a couple of months ago and saw a homeless man shiting on a sidewalk on Colfax Avenue. In the day.

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[@jetpetty1613]

@@jimmyramos3364 the "war on drugs" actually causes the proliferation of drugs as well as the low quality. Many people are under the belief that these laws somehow control the proliferation of drugs when they absolutely do not. Lookup The IRON Law of PROHIBITION....it's the truth of the situation

[@ivettecardona4227]

Out of all your pod cast Aubrey and I live your Chanel..this one is the only one that did not touch me at all. There is not connection not even with you ..He is wrong because to do this people would have to dig in much more of what's the concept the reasons why people need the use of drug. It is not to feel better but to denied reality within themselves..To escape, the lack of self love and identity.

[@jimmybolton8473]

Ive actually been grateful for being arrested when I was using, as I was being handcuffed I was relieved . Just saying…🙃

[@kahler6814]

Some dudes like being in bondage with Dom woman. Don't force that shit on everyone else ya freak

[@brianclark641]

Personally, I don’t care if drugs are legal or illegal…would love mushrooms and ecstasy was legal…the problem I have with this interview is this guy never sites his sources to back up what he’s saying

[@aaronwatter]

I guess after decades of conducting PHD research and publishing all those books he's getting complacent. Did you check out his new book?

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[@holmavik6756]

No no no… No! I can buy all of this, but their view on God scares the sh*t out of me

[@kaine3805]

I would like to see this guy being interviewed by a drug counselor or an addict or an ex dealer who seen up close and personal what drugs do to individuals and communities

[@chyfields]

Legalisation and regulation are different tools. Your freedom is my loss of ability to exercise my God given right to explore the Creation.

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

Is it not ones own right to choose? Who are you to say what is best for others or communities?

[@chyfields]

@@larsonfamilyhouse Quote: "Is it not ones own right to choose?"

[@chyfields]

Are you someone who would mandate experimental, unnatural vaccines yet deny others the right to imbibe alcohol, sugar, tea, caffeine, tabacco and legalised mind altering pain killers?

[@LisaLywulf]

He is and has worked with addicts. I have been all the if those things and it's not the drugs. It's the issues withen the person. He is making perfect sense.

[@tomasr64]

I didn't hear anything in 20+ minutes that The fact remains that any drug that alters the majority of users actions to harm others (ie. meth use and greater incidences of violence and theft) do require law and rule to protect the greater law abiding society. Appreciate the tough work many people do to combat bad drug use daily, like cops and social workers and doctors. You guys ignored that in the conversation. Stop or greatly reduce violence related to any drug use and then the court may listen to you about the changing the system. AM, you ought to go live on the streets for a couple weeks to experience the suffering going on out there and see the fallout of all these synthetic chemicals. Full on despair in the cities because the HIGH over rules any way to be a civil human. watch the interviews on the Soft White Underbelly channel about the addict story. - There are potential solutions but would require another conversation. 😚🌿

[@aaronwatter]

Interesting, I haven't really looked into any of those studies demonstrating drug effects alone (i.e. independent of social, economic or other factors etc.) to be responsible for violent behavior.

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