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I haven't read this book, but I'm not gonna lie, I'm laughing a little bit already about it's content.
I really thought in, we were passed all the bullshit about why marijuana should still be illegal, It doesn't fucking cause psychosis, If a dude who used THC went psychotic and killed his wife he was already going to go psychotic and kill his wife.
The THC had nothing to do with it, Lord have mercy.
UpdateBecause I am getting way more comments than I expected about my lack of approval of this book, I just want to make something clear we are all entitled to our own opinions.
If you feel passionately about your hatred for marijuana, that is seriously fine, I personally feel cannabis has so many benefits, Do I think kids should be smoking No, Do I think it could negatively affect a developing brain Sure! But do I think there should be a book called "TELL YOUR CHILDREN" and connecting VIOLENCE WITH SMOKING WEED No.
I didn't rate the book one star because I haven't read it, I can't rate it, and I wouldn't let the Tell Your Children's rating be negatively affected by an ignorant rating, I wanted to make a comment on it being published, so I did, I hope those commenting, who feel SO passionately against my view on marijuana, feel as passionately about the literature making sure everyone knows the affects of alcohol.
I hope you're working toward the illegalization of alcohol that actually causes cancer, death, violence, addiction, families to break up even my own, etc.
Thanks. I have read so much fiction lately that I was afraid reading a nonfiction book would be like reading a textbook.
Thankfully that is not the case, the author has laid out this book quite well and was a very interesting read.
I'm probably rating this book higher than most people would but I'm a sucker for satistics, The premise of this book namely, that marijuana has, throughout time and in different cultures, caused a subset of its users to become schizophrenic and violent is interesting and runs counter to Western culture's view of marijuana as a harmless recreational drug.
However, I think I would have preferred reading a long article, I couldn't get through this book and would have just liked the information condensed, If you are a parent, educator, physician, psychologist, therapist, or substance abuse counselor, and only have time to read one book this year, read this one.
Thoroughly researched, this powerful new book by Alex Berenson should be mandatory reading for every person concerned about the health and safety of our children and families.
Painstakingly refuting the false narrative that has been pushed for years by promarijuana advocates that pot is medicine, pot does not kill people, pot does no harm, and that pot is actually good for you, Berenson cites overyears of studies conducted throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States to convincingly prove the point that there is an undisputed link between cannabis use, mental illness, and violence.
I was left stunned by how little of this information has been reported in the American press, and how summarily this data has been dismissed by our elected officials at all levels.
Since I have spent the lastyears watching a child's life deteriorate because of weed, I have hated this drug for as long as I can remember, and this book provides me with data beyond my own anecdotal experiences to prove the case that pot does, in fact, ruin brains and ruin lives.
Shame on every single person who has sold the lie that this "harmless plant" is the cureall to a myriad of society's problems.
"Should psychiatrists speak out about what they were seeing to discourage cannabis use, I asked Simpson said that in Colorado, psychiatrists had tried and failed.
'We've put it out there, and the community is not receptive, ' At this point, his job as a physician was to try to deal with the wreckage, 'treat what comes in the door.
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"What did he think would happen in five years, I asked What would the Denver Health emergency room be like, especially if cannabis continued to grow in popularity
"Simpson had a threeword answer: 'It'll be busier.
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This passage comes a little more than halfway through the narrative of Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence, a poorly named book that should nonetheless
be required reading for lawmakers considering full legalization of recreational marijuana and parents who think their kids smoking weed is no big deal.
The book makes its case primarily with data and studies from around the world that evidence a tie between marijuana use and psychosis, and between psychosis and nightmarish violence.
The author, a former New York Times reporter, doesn't avoid stepping on toes or burning sacred cows, and that's because he's convinced of the connection between marijuana, psychosis, and violence.
The evidence he presents is both convincing and alarming,
"Based on his data and later findings, Andreasson says he believes that cannabis is responsible for betweenpercent andpercent of schizophrenia cases.
Few people develop schizophrenia solely because of smoking, he thinks, But many who would not have become sick do so because marijuana pushes their vulnerable brains over the edge,
"'Without cannabis, few people would develop the disorder,' he says, " page
Before going any further, it's important to understand where Alex Berenson is coming from in writing this book.
In the introduction, he tells us how he has always held a more liberal stance on marijuana, didn't think of it as a dangerous substanceif you want to use it, go ahead.
But then he had a conversation with his wife, a psychiatrist, about a frightening case of violence and she commented on the fact that the perpetrator was "of course" high and had been smoking pot for much of his life.
This comment caught Berenson offguard, and the subsequent conversation led him to start digging into the scholarship around marijuana use and mental health.
He didn't set out to write a book, What he found in the process of research convinced him to write a book,
It turns out that the connection between marijuana use especially if started young or used frequently over years and psychosis has been welldocumentedto the point that ethical standards prevent researchers from testing the effects of cannabis on people with a history of psychotic disorders because of "the known link between the drug and psychosis" page.
There is a lot of information in this book, Berenson goes through study after study, many of them from Europe, He points out the work that has been done in the UK, where marijuana is hardly used compared to in the US and Canada.
He touches on the chemical and brain science aspects, the distinction between CBD nonpsychoactive and THC what gets you high, and explains the problem with the term "medical marijuana".
He points out that the concentration of THC in today's marijuana is much higher than it was in thes ors, and that through other cannabis products like edibles, users are often consuming straight THC, so they're getting even higher doses of the chemical than they would from smoking it.
Most of the book is data reporting and science, but in the last few chapters, he focuses primarily on examples of horrifying violence carried out by people in some state of psychosis who either had a history of near constant marijuana use or had just ingested more THC than they ever had before.
He waits until the end of the book to tell those stories, because he knows the typical response would be something like, "That's a freak example.
That's not typical. " Berenson is convinced if marijuana use continues to increase, this sort of violence will become typical,
Whether or not he's entirely right, I think he's onto something, I've always had philosophical and theological problems with getting highCorinthians:, and with my baselevel understanding of brain science, I've also thought: if something gets you high, that's probably because a chemical is getting past the bloodbrain barrier that isn't supposed to, so you're probably doing damage to your brain.
I read about half of this book on my daily commute through Denver, on a bus where the stench of weed is almost constant and it's common to encounter people who couldn't be described as lucid.
I know at least two people personally who have had psychotic breaks while using, though none to the extremes described in this book thank God.
A lot of what Berenson wrote rings true and makes logical sense,
I gave the book five because I really do think it should be required readingmaybe for everyone.
It's a necessary check against the "marijuana is harmless" message that we hear all the time, But this book really, really, really needs a bibliography and the title is terrible, If they republish it under a new name which they should, they need to go with something like "Seeing Through the Smoke.
" I had no idea how marijuana can cause psychosis, leading to violence, till I heard from the author, This is a very important book for us as citizens, for legislators, for mental health professionals, and for substance abuse counselors.
The facts, marshaled historically, globally and regionally, are overwhelming, Im skeptical to write what I honestly think of this book, It profoundly changed my opinion on this drug,
One that I had used in the past in different forms, It has caused me both pleasure and panic on different occasians,
Ive used it as an indicator for environmental health cannabis industry and have researched and taken interest in its impacts to our environment.
The plants unique needs and its history has always fascinated me,
This book is right, Looking back on my own experiences and a little bit of digging I for my own health and sanity no longer support legalization of cannabis.
Please read it with an open mind and come to your own views, I am confident that it will be the same as his,
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