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

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Synopsis

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” (Malcom 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).

Chapters

  • 001 TellYourChildren Open

    Duration: 28s
  • 002 TellYourChildren Dedication

    Duration: 07s
  • 003 TellYourChildren Epigraph

    Duration: 14s
  • 004 TellYourChildren Introduction

    Duration: 44min
  • 005 TellYourChildren PartOne Chapter1

    Duration: 22min
  • 006 TellYourChildren PartOne Chapter2

    Duration: 25min
  • 007 TellYourChildren PartOne Chapter3

    Duration: 22min
  • 008 TellYourChildren PartOne Chapter4

    Duration: 15min
  • 009 TellYourChildren PartOne Chapter5

    Duration: 34min
  • 010 TellYourChildren PartTwo Chapter6

    Duration: 32min
  • 011 TellYourChildren PartTwo Chapter7

    Duration: 31min
  • 012 TellYourChildren PartTwo Chapter8

    Duration: 12min
  • 013 TellYourChildren PartTwo Chapter9

    Duration: 18min
  • 014 TellYourChildren PartTwo Chapter10

    Duration: 37min
  • 015 TellYourChildren PartThree Chapter11

    Duration: 22min
  • 016 TellYourChildren PartThree Chapter12

    Duration: 20min
  • 017 TellYourChildren PartThree Chapter13

    Duration: 28min
  • 018 TellYourChildren PartThree Chapter14

    Duration: 16min
  • 019 TellYourChildren Epilogue

    Duration: 15min
  • 020 TellYourChildren Close

    Duration: 01min