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Carl Hart is a 54-year-old Air Force veteran, professor of psychology at Columbia University, and unapologetic recreational heroin user./"I use heroin/," he tells Reason, /"partly because it's really good for helping me relax, forgiving others more, examining my own behavior and seeing where I need to change in order to be a more responsible person, in order to be a better person./"Hart's new book, Drug Use for Adults: Pursuing Freedom in the Land of Fear, is a provocative manifesto to legalize all drugs and allow responsible adults to use intoxicants of their choice. He comes out of the "chemical closet" because he says the costs of the war on drugs – the violence that accompanies black markets, the creation of a prison-industrial complex, the destruction of minority neighborhoods, the perversion of justice, and many others, are too heavy to bear. He claims that prohibition is based on a series of lies about substance abuse, and he documents that the overwhelming majority of drug users – even hard drugs, like heroin or methamphetamine – use responsibly and are not respectful. more likely to develop problems than drinkers. Most importantly, Hart asserts that drug prohibition is contrary to the ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence, which "guaranteed life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all of us, so long as we do not disrupt the ability to someone else to do the same. We can live our lives however we want, and drug use can be a part of that for many Americans. "
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