{"product_id":"tell-your-children-the-truth-about-marijuana-mental-illness-and-violence-alex-berenson-paperback","title":"Tell Your Children: The Truth about Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence -- Alex Berenson, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eIn \"a brilliant antidote to all the...false narratives about pot\" (\u003ci\u003eAmerican Thinker\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, an award-winning author and former \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ereporter 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRecreational 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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Alex Berenson has a reporter's tenacity, a novelist's imagination, and an outsider's knack for asking intemperate questions\" (Malcolm Gladwell, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e), 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith the US already gripped by one drug epidemic, \u003ci\u003eTell Your Children \u003c\/i\u003eis a \"well-written treatise\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) that \"takes a sledgehammer to the promised benefits of marijuana legalization, and cannabis enthusiasts are not going to like it one bit\" (\u003ci\u003eMother Jones\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Alex Berenson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Free Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2\/18\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.3\" H x 5.4\" L x 0.9\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781982103675\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51225379176752,"sku":"9781982103675","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9781982103675.jpg?v=1784242716","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/tell-your-children-the-truth-about-marijuana-mental-illness-and-violence-alex-berenson-paperback","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}