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

Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness and Violence
First edition
AuthorAlex Berenson
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectCannabis, psychosis, violence
PublisherFree Press
Publication date
January 8, 2019
ISBN978-1-9821-0366-8

Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness and Violence is a 2019 book by Alex Berenson. In it, Berenson makes claims that cannabis use directly causes psychosis and violence, claims denounced as alarmist and inaccurate by many in the scientific and medical communities. The scientists state that Berenson is drawing inappropriate conclusions from the research he cites, primarily by inferring causation from correlation,[1]: 1 [2]: 1 [3]: 1 [4] as well as cherry picking[5]: 1  data that fits his narrative, and falling victim to selection bias via his use of anecdotes[5]: 1  to back up his assertions.[3]: 1 [6]: 1 [2]: 1 [7]: 1 [8]

The title "Tell Your Children" was also the original title for Reefer Madness, a 1936 American propaganda film which gained cult popularity in the 1970s for its alarmist claims about marijuana. In an interview, Berenson said he made this choice deliberately: "I expected I would face serious backlash for this book and instead of running from it I decided to lean in."[9]

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  4. ^ Ecarma, Caleb (April 10, 2020). "An Ex-New York Times Reporter Has Become the Right's Go-To Coronavirus Skeptic - Alex Berenson, a journalist and thriller writer, is being quoted on Breitbart and appearing on Fox News—even going too far for Sean Hannity". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on April 13, 2020. Retrieved April 30, 2020. This isn't the first time Berenson has peddled health misinformation moonlighting as hard, contrarian truth. In 2019, he published Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness and Violence, a Reefer Madness–style book warning of rampant THC-linked societal problems. In a letter, 100 academics and clinicians from some of America's top medical institutions denounced arguments in Berenson's book, describing his research as "flawed pop science" and a perpetuation of "the worst myths about people of color and people with mental illness".
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  9. ^ Geller, Craig (January 7, 2019). "The Case Against Cannabis: A journalist's pursuit of the truth about marijuana, mental illness and violence". The Marshall Project. Retrieved October 13, 2019.

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