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

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In โ€œa brilliant antidote to all theโ€ฆfalse narratives about potโ€ (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 drugโ€”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 mythsโ€”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, THCโ€”the chemical in marijuana responsible for the drugโ€™s highโ€”can cause psychotic episodes.

โ€œAlex Berenson has a reporterโ€™s tenacity, a novelistโ€™s imagination, and an outsiderโ€™s knack for asking intemperate questionsโ€ (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 โ€œwell-written treatiseโ€ (Publishers Weekly) that โ€œtakes a sledgehammer to the promised benefits of marijuana legalization, and cannabis enthusiasts are not going to like it one bitโ€ (Mother Jones).

Editorial Reviews

Review

“[Alex Berenson] has a reporter’s tenacity, a novelist’s imagination, and an outsider’s knack for asking intemperate questions. The result is disturbing.” (โ€”Malcom Gladwell The New Yorker)

โ€œTakes a sledgehammer to the promised benefits of marijuana legalization, and cannabis enthusiasts are not going to like it one bit.โ€ (โ€”Mother Jones)

โ€œA brilliant antidote to all theโ€ฆfalse narratives about pot out there.โ€ (โ€”American Thinker)

โ€œAn intensively researched and passionate dissent from the now prevailing view that marijuana is relatively harmless.โ€ (โ€”The Marshall Project)

“Berenson has done an important public service…[Tell Your Children] could save a few lives.” (โ€”The Guardian)

“The stakes are high…aren’t we better off listening to Berenson than to some marijuana magnate?” (โ€”The Spectator)

“An interesting book that should be read by all concerned.” (โ€”The Washington Times)

“Filled with statistics that shock.” (โ€”The Times of London)

About the Author

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 Katerina 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 eleven more novels. Currently, he lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife and children. Tell Your Children is his second nonfiction book.

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