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

Alex Berenson

Jan 2019 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

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).

Ratings and reviews

Cocaine doesnt stem from marijuana it stems from teenagers doing adderall. Maybe he should go to a high school and figure out that 1 / 20 kids do marinjuana but near 1/4 do adderall or some sort of pill. Opiods and presecribtion medicine abuse is the true tragedy today. Especially since theyre LEGAL IN 50 STATES. Drug overdoses killed roughly 72,000 people in 2019 alone. Where opiods where 98% of these deaths. And please dont get me started with teenage alcohol abuse. This author should of done some field work before spitting out propaganda about "youth" problems.

To write a book like this while the truth from studies the government doesn't want funded is being revealed astounds me. The truth and this book are in contrast

If you want the truth about pot go watch the authors podcast with Joe Rogan and a real doctor lol. They f***** you up 😂

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 Katrina 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 twelve more novels and a nonfiction book, Tell Your Children. Currently, he lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife and children.