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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: rangerrebew on January 27, 2019, 02:41:51 pm

Title: Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
Post by: rangerrebew on January 27, 2019, 02:41:51 pm: Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
January 2019

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

Alex BerensonAlex Berenson is a graduate of Yale University with degrees in history and economics. He began his career in journalism in 1994 as a business reporter for the Denver Post, joined the financial news website TheStreet.com in 1996, and worked as an investigative reporter for The New York Times from 1999 to 2010, during which time he also served two stints as an Iraq War correspondent. In 2006 he published The Faithful Spy, which won the 2007 Edgar Award for best first novel from the Mystery Writers of America. He has published ten additional novels and two nonfiction books, The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America and Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence.

The following is adapted from a speech delivered on January 15, 2019, at Hillsdale Collegeâ€™s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C.

Seventy miles northwest of New York City is a hospital that looks like a prison, its drab brick buildings wrapped in layers of fencing and barbed wire. This grim facility is called the Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Institute. Itâ€™s one of three places the state of New York sends the criminally mentally illâ€”defendants judged not guilty by reason of insanity.

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/marijuana-mental-illness-violence/?appeal_code=MK119EM1&sc=MK119EM1&utm_campaign=imprimis&utm_source=housefile&utm_medium=email&utm_content=january2019marijuana&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9laMGKtZHU3Hj7hvqyzpgaoDwXo5vyRrj9wSi-http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,349351.0.htmlcyaVea1SM3zgc9KMgliCcey5AMQkiitXDsp6AKeufDR7UPJkAAeuqQ&_hsmi=69315554 (https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/marijuana-mental-illness-violence/?appeal_code=MK119EM1&sc=MK119EM1&utm_campaign=imprimis&utm_source=housefile&utm_medium=email&utm_content=january2019marijuana&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9laMGKtZHU3Hj7hvqyzpgaoDwXo5vyRrj9wSi-http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,349351.0.htmlcyaVea1SM3zgc9KMgliCcey5AMQkiitXDsp6AKeufDR7UPJkAAeuqQ&_hsmi=69315554)
Title: Re: Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
Post by: Restored on January 27, 2019, 03:00:36 pm: This happened in the next town over:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6633263/Virginia-college-student-Luisa-Cutting-charged-murder-best-friend-Alexa-Cannon.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6633263/Virginia-college-student-Luisa-Cutting-charged-murder-best-friend-Alexa-Cannon.html)

"Police seize pot grinders, smoking devices and a 'brown chalk-like substance'"
Title: Re: Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
Post by: bigheadfred on January 27, 2019, 03:40:08 pm: Good article. But, I fear, a cry in the wilderness.
Title: Re: Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
Post by: dfwgator on January 27, 2019, 04:21:38 pm: But....but......Marijuana makes you "mellow".
Title: Re: Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
Post by: corbe on January 27, 2019, 05:09:37 pm: This is BS and I will attack anyone here with my usual senseless rhetoric if you disagree with me.
Title: Re: Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
Post by: Sighlass on January 27, 2019, 05:20:55 pm: BTTT... good read...
Title: Re: Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
Post by: bigheadfred on January 27, 2019, 05:32:15 pm: Quote from: corbe on January 27, 2019, 05:09:37 pm
This is BS and I will attack anyone here with my usual senseless rhetoric if you disagree with me.

:silly:

Says the nekked guy in the beanbag chair eating Cheetos.

Careful. Waving that orange middle finger round may give people the thought you are an ardent Trump supporter.

The Force is strong in this one, @dfwgator.