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

By Alex Berenson

Book Overview

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).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982103671
• ISBN13: 9781982103675
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

"almost no one is in prison for marijuana" ????

unless the author has some other definition, there are still thousands of people incarcerated for charges related to marijuana...

Informative. Quality research supports information

As an R.N. I have witnessed the destruction of a healthy mind in my patients. For example, the saying "let sleeping dogs sleep" has been used as it relates to the development of Schizophrenia. What do we mean by this? If there is a chance of psychosis, smoking pot (with THC of course) will awaken what may have never been experienced by a patient. This book goes beyond my observations. The book is an easy read, makes sense, and qualifies with back up what the author is saying. THANK YOU so much, Mr. Berenson! Great job.