Hart is not unsympathetic and says so, alluding to elements of his own history that the film touched on (drugs’ influence in the Miami neighborhood where he grew up as well as his oldest son’s involvement with them). She begs to disagree, describing her own experience with a relative struggling with addiction. There are serious consequences to people for exaggerating the effects of drugs.”Ī woman steps to the microphone. Scott (D-Va.), as part of a post-movie community discussion. He is speaking now, along with the director Eugene Jarecki, executive producer John Legend and Rep. The documentary, which won a grand jury prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, raises serious questions about the intent and efficacy of the war on drugs, and Hart - an associate professor of psychology who specializes in the impact of drugs on the brain and human behavior - was among those featured in the film. This is not an easy message to absorb, even for an audience that’s been primed, as this one at the Apollo Theater has, by a screening of The House I Live In. And I am here to tell you, drugs are not the bogeyman that people said they were.” “But I have been studying drugs for 22 years, 14 years at Columbia, and we have quite a bit of scientific, evidence-based information. Not that we should run out and start looking for a score that’s not the point. wants us to know we’ve been lied to about the effects of cocaine, methamphetamine and other drugs.
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