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

  • Autor: Alex Berenson
  • Narrador: Alex Berenson
  • Editora: Simon & Schuster
  • Duração: 6:43:14
preview

Sinopse

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).

Capítulos

  • 001 TellYourChildren Open

    Duração: 28s
  • 002 TellYourChildren Dedication

    Duração: 07s
  • 003 TellYourChildren Epigraph

    Duração: 14s
  • 004 TellYourChildren Introduction

    Duração: 44min
  • 005 TellYourChildren PartOne Chapter1

    Duração: 22min
  • 006 TellYourChildren PartOne Chapter2

    Duração: 25min
  • 007 TellYourChildren PartOne Chapter3

    Duração: 22min
  • 008 TellYourChildren PartOne Chapter4

    Duração: 15min
  • 009 TellYourChildren PartOne Chapter5

    Duração: 34min
  • 010 TellYourChildren PartTwo Chapter6

    Duração: 32min
  • 011 TellYourChildren PartTwo Chapter7

    Duração: 31min
  • 012 TellYourChildren PartTwo Chapter8

    Duração: 12min
  • 013 TellYourChildren PartTwo Chapter9

    Duração: 18min
  • 014 TellYourChildren PartTwo Chapter10

    Duração: 37min
  • 015 TellYourChildren PartThree Chapter11

    Duração: 22min
  • 016 TellYourChildren PartThree Chapter12

    Duração: 20min
  • 017 TellYourChildren PartThree Chapter13

    Duração: 28min
  • 018 TellYourChildren PartThree Chapter14

    Duração: 16min
  • 019 TellYourChildren Epilogue

    Duração: 15min
  • 020 TellYourChildren Close

    Duração: 01min