![]() ![]() ![]() “It doesn’t matter whether the drug is alcohol, caffeine, tobacco, or weed,” he writes of the last point. As the author suggests, millions of grown-ups already do so, and despite all the warnings and admonitions against it, by Hart’s lights even pregnant women can use a little here and there without being or producing monsters. The first is to argue that the grown-ups of his title can indeed use drugs of varying descriptions-mostly marijuana, likely, but up to and including methamphetamines and opioids-and still be responsible parents and citizens. ![]() ![]() Hart, the first tenured African American professor of sciences at Columbia University and former psychology department head, calls himself “an unapologetic drug user.” His formulary is extensive, and it is likely only because he’s tenured that he so readily admits to a liking for-but not addiction to-heroin, along with an overstuffed medicine cabinet full of other substances. A full-throated defense of self-aware, voluntary drug use. ![]()
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