Tell Your Children
The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
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Alex Berenson
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Alex Berenson
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An eye-opening report from 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 has ignored as the US rushes to legalize cannabis.
Recreational marijuana is now legal in nine states. Almost all Americans believe the drug should be legal for medical use. 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 not just harmless but beneficial for mental health. In this meticulously reported audiobook, Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter, explodes those myths:
- 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;
- Marijuana use is linked to opiate and cocaine use. Since 2008, the US and Canada have seen soaring marijuana use and an opiate epidemic. Britain has falling marijuana use and no epidemic;
- Most of all, THC - the chemical in marijuana responsible for the drug’s high - can cause psychotic episodes. After decades of studies, scientists no longer seriously debate if marijuana causes psychosis.
Psychosis brings violence, and cannabis-linked violence is spreading. In the four states that first legalized, murders have risen 25 percent since legalization, even more than the recent national increase. In Uruguay, which allowed retail sales in July 2017, murders have soared this year.
Berenson’s reporting 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 30-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, this audiobook will make listeners reconsider if marijuana use is worth the risk.
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Au global4 out of 5 stars
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- ScienceGeek
- 2019-02-01
An important book for parents and legislators
I began this book expecting more heat than light, opinion based on ideology and oversimplified case histories rather than objective evidence. In thirty years practicing addiction medicine in the trenches I’ve seen lots of horror stories treating more than my share of people suffering the short and longterm effects of cannabis. But I’m more interested in evidence than opinion, no matter how passionately held or articulately presented. Berenson surprised me. His past investigative journalism experience came through in his presentation of important published (peer reviewed) research findings that, even when I checked his facts, I found alarming. I had known of a causative link between cannabinoid use and psychosis, however I was unaware of the strength of the existing, published evidence nor the disturbing association of cannabinoid induced psychosis and violent crime. He goes on to explore and debunk many of the pro-legalization arguments that flooded the media leading up to major legislative changes.
Although this book is very important, there several reasons, I doubt it will significantly influence decision makers or the public. Despite not being written as a science paper with formal citations, endnotes and bibliography, it is data heavy, describing study after study making it, at times, heavy going. I also suspect it will attract the ire and some persuasive - if not exactly evidence-based - reaction op/ed essays from critics on behalf of the well financed Cannabis lobby.
In the final pages his new book, Homo Deus, Harrari explains that, during these times of data overload, censorship works through flooding people with irrelevant and confusing information. It is unfortunate but highly likely Berenson’s book will be lost in the tsunami of advertorials and infomercial misinformation praising the global benefits of cannabis. Too bad, as he provides important cautionary information for lawmakers for parents or for people thinking of ingesting marijuana or cannabinoid products. He also provides a solid framework for the basis of a future class action law suit against legislators and corporations who had access to this same information.
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- Claire Wilde
- 2021-02-24
mindblown
engaging and really shifted my perspective. really important read. such important information for parents to read.
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