Tell Your Children - Alex Berenson

Tell Your Children

By Alex Berenson

  • Release Date: 2019-01-08
  • Genre: Public Administration
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 55 Ratings)

Description

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).

Reviews

  • ...Can relate

    5
    By 1ugly
    This book was in my face and some times hard to read. It prompted me to open up conversations with my young adult children about my past. Many of the findings presented in this book cleared my understanding of personal experiences over 10 years of recreational use in the early 70s. I quit because I had some level of awareness but now I can clearly see what was happening to in my brain. I now understand what I used to call “scatter-brain” was more serious and quitting when I did probably saved (at least improved) my life.
  • Wrong! 👎🏻DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS TRASH

    1
    By 😒👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻
    I was a victim of the prescription drug abuse thanks to my mother who abused the system. Marijuana was the one thing that helped my body eat while suffering from side effects of pharmaceutical companies pills and for you to completely slander marijuana use when Alcohol Prohibition was just about 100 years ago as well and Alcohol has ZERO health benefits when it comes to recreational users of Drinking. I am a recovering addict and I haven’t touched any harder drugs for the past 4 years, and nor do I drink but I smoke marijuana so I am proof your book of full of shi*
  • Trash

    1
    By Guffhggu
    Garbage. 1 star is apparently the minimum although this deserves 0.

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