As a Columbia professor, he could survey undergraduates about their drug use and then track their educational, career, and personal outcomes. I doubt that the d

As a Columbia professor, he could survey undergraduates about their drug use and then track their educational, career, and personal outcomes. I doubt that the drug users will do well compared to the abstainers, but I could be proven wrong. There have been several links to positive articles on Hart at HN. Here are some skeptical articles: https://www.city-journal.org/review-of-drug-use-for-grown-ups https://www.city-journal.org/review-of-drug-use-for-grown-up... Drug Fiends and Fools: A trendy new book recycles the same old case for normalizing drug use. by Charles Fain Lehman City Journal January 27, 2021 'Hart offers thin evidence for his case that fear of drugs is mostly moral panic. Meth mouth is “probably more fiction than fact,” he says (it’s not). Crack is the “epidemic that wasn’t” (it was). Crack had no effect on violence, he claims, as is proved by the higher murder rate in 1980 versus 1985 (the murder rate fell, then rose following crack’s emergence). “Most heroin users do not become addicted to the drug” (the study Hart himself cites finds that 20 percent to 40 percent of first-time users become addicted). It does not require deep research to rebut Hart’s denialism. One needs only look at recent CDC data, which indicate that a record 83,000 people died from drug overdoses in the year preceding June 2020, most from synthetic opioids and Hart’s beloved methamphetamine. Drug overdose is the leading non-medical cause of death in the United States and has been for years. It is preposterous to act like this is not a problem.' https://www.wsj.com/articles/drug-use-for-grown-ups-review-a-dose-of-dissent-11610579392 https://www.wsj.com/articles/drug-use-for-grown-ups-review-a... ungated: https://archive.is/yRAiu https://archive.is/yRAiu ‘Drug Use for Grown-Ups’ Review: A Dose of Dissent by Sally Satel Wall Street Journal