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    Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
    Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
    Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
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    Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence

    Written by Alex Berenson

    Narrated by Alex Berenson

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    In “a brilliant antidote to all the…false narratives about pot” (American Thinker), an award-winning author and former New York Times reporter reveals the link between teenage marijuana use and mental illness, and a hidden epidemic of violence caused by the drug—facts the media have ignored as the United States rushes to legalize cannabis.

    Recreational marijuana is now legal in nine states. Advocates argue cannabis can help everyone from veterans to cancer sufferers. But legalization has been built on myths—that marijuana arrests fill prisons; that most doctors want to use cannabis as medicine; that it can somehow stem the opiate epidemic; that it is beneficial for mental health. In this meticulously reported book, Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter, explodes those myths, explaining that almost no one is in prison for marijuana; a tiny fraction of doctors write most authorizations for medical marijuana, mostly for people who have already used; and marijuana use is linked to opiate and cocaine use. Most of all, THC—the chemical in marijuana responsible for the drug’s high—can cause psychotic episodes.

    “Alex Berenson has a reporter’s tenacity, a novelist’s imagination, and an outsider’s knack for asking intemperate questions” (Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker), as he ranges from the London institute that is home to the scientists who helped prove the cannabis-psychosis link to the Colorado prison where a man now serves a thirty-year sentence after eating a THC-laced candy bar and killing his wife. He sticks to the facts, and they are devastating.

    With the US already gripped by one drug epidemic, Tell Your Children is a “well-written treatise” (Publishers Weekly) that “takes a sledgehammer to the promised benefits of marijuana legalization, and cannabis enthusiasts are not going to like it one bit” (Mother Jones).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJan 8, 2019
    ISBN9781508282372
    Author

    Alex Berenson

    Alex Berenson is a former New York Times reporter and award-winning novelist. He attended Yale University and joined the Times in 1999, where he covered everything from the drug industry to Hurricane Katrina and served as a correspondent in Iraq. In 2006, The Faithful Spy, his debut novel, won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel. He has since written twelve more novels and a nonfiction book, Tell Your Children. Currently, he lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife and children.

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    • 1/5
      Just an anti-cannabis book with lots of propaganda and weak arguements.

      6 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Hard to believe this propaganda is still being pushed.....Pure unadulterated horseshit

      6 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Not an eye opening read, and way behind the times.

      4 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      That’s book was well researched and I found it to be very informative and also very important since I live in a state that has legalized marijuana and I just thought it wasn’t A problem at all. Honestly, before reading this book I would have thought that marijuana was a medicine and that it was less dangerous than alcohol. On every metric. After reading this book, I can see why our violence in our state especially our psychotic violence and murder rate is through the roof. I’m very grateful that the author take the time to write such a bold work

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      As a psych student, this is fear-mongering at its best. Let it be known that certain genetic predispositions combined with marijuana use can lead to mental illness. BUT marijuana use is not inherently tied to serious forms of mental illness. It’s gross that this author is pushing a narrative that has not been broadly supported by psychological research. The author has no real arguments to make and, instead, attempts to scare people into not smoking marijuana.
    • 5/5
      Eye opening listen. This book needs to get in the hands of more people.
    • 5/5
      This book opened my eyes, it is definitely a “must-listen”.