Tell Your Children

The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence

By: Alex Berenson

Narrated by: Alex Berenson

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).

I learned a lot!

I learned a lot from this book. The author makes an overwhelming case about the dangers of marijuana, especially related to schizophrenia. I knew marijuana had a lot of negative side affects, but I had no idea those side affects include violent psychosis. I highly recommend this book, because I think it's important that people be educated on the subject by someone other than the marijuana lobby that's trying to get rich off it. We need to know the true risks and this book highlights some of them.

Finally, the entire, unvarnished truth about weed!

Thank you, Alex Berenson, for compiling and presenting this important and timely matter. EVERY parent and child need to know the truth about this drug and its effects. This is a must read for every citizen in order to have a responsible society.

Must listen

A thorough evaluation of the myths and facts regarding violence and marijuana use. Must listen!

Tell your children is a crucial book.

Absolutely terrific. This is a must read. Solid and thorough research. Very well put together. I always love when the writer narrates.
Please, dare to be in the know.

Nice to finally hear about marijuana research

Nice to finally hear about marijuana research instead of having marketing anecdotes presented as scientific fact. The history was fascinating, too.