On February 28, Hudson Institute hosted Alex Berenson for a discussion of his latest book, Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and …
42 responses to “Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence: A Conversation with Alex Berenson”
Weed is something I enjoy about once a year. I do it just because it's my God given right, and if we don't use it, we lose it. Does it have problems? Sure. If it didn't I'm probably enjoy it a lot more often. I enjoyed it way more in high school than as an adult, because it was new and exciting. But that temporary psychosis just gets less fun over time. It makes me shy, and I like having a clear control of my brain. I think socially, a person who gets high every day, you're more likely to be a communist. But rights trump all, and so naturally there's a conflict, right? Because communism is anti-rights. Ironic, because we have to keep our hands off individuals so they can turn themselves into collectivists… But of course it doesn't have that affect on everyone. I'm not going to listen to this whole thing right now, but if he takes a position against CBD I disagree strongly. About that legalization thing though: Don't legalize it! by doing so you're taking a God given right, and turning it into a privilege. Not a good move, but I expect that from people who are too high to read the 4th and 9th amendments.
I would truly love to talk with Alex as someone who has experienced literally every negative symptom talking point he mentions. Alex, if you happen to read this comment and are interested in talking to a 44 year old american man who experienced psychosis and multiple mental health problems as an absolute and direct result from smoking weed beginning at age 16, please just respond here and we can go from there. Merry Christmas and Happy New Years too
The Hudson Institute is a Washington DC-based military think tank that advises such groups as The School of the Americas out of Ft. Bragg which trains Central and South American death squads with US equipment, US instructors and on the US public's tax dime. Hudson's detailed and promoted analyses of "ladders of escalation" and reports on the likely consequences of limited and unlimited nuclear exchanges, eventually published as (1962) and (1965). Connected to the RAND organisation, The Hudson Institute directed the unprecedented military build up in US nuclear arms since the Kennedy Administration … .
This is a joke the people who vilify marijuana have never smoked it nor the people doing the "testing" I have PTSD and without marijuana I don't think I could function in society. Anybody who says differently is trying to sell you something. Point in fact a BOOK of BULLSHIT!
This guy is wrong. Ive been clean from real hard drugs for quiet a while thanks to SMOKING THE SHIT OUTTA SOME WEED. I was an addict for over 20 years and thanks to expanding my mind through the mighty psylocibin and daily use of marijuana, I changed my life, love my family, go to work, pay my bills and didn't vote Donald Trump. Life can be positive. Just have to open your mind.
The discussion on mental health and marijuana is very important and necessary, but framing this as an argument against legalization is disingenuous. How does this justify the war on drugs whatsoever? Apples and oranges. This is not a good argument against legalization, it's an argument for education about individual mental health and general safety when using alcohol or marijuana. The black market would be gone only if you couldnt smuggle it across state lines so easily, I.e. if the next state and the next and the next has their own weed already, the black market will certainly diminish vastly.
If you haven’t smoked weed yourself then you don’t know shit my friend! So listen Mr. Yale you read whatever you want…study away my friend …because after listening to all your bs….and you never burned one yourself …like I said before my dude …seriously you don’t know shit…!!! Back to the drawing board dude you failed!!
I’ve been smoking for 6 years. This is just comedy. Yeah let’s spread false information about a natural medicine. We’re losing too many patients and we’re in fear of losing business. Pathetic.
Isn’t it hilarious how Doctors that prescribe pills are heavily against medical marijuana? Because it takes from their business..
Berenson attempts to back up these stories with a few studies on marijuana and violence. It’s true that some individual studies have found a link, although many conflicting studies have not. This is why it’s better, when evaluating data, to rely on large, rigorous reviews of the evidence.
Such a review exists: In 2013, one was conducted by the RAND Drug Policy Research Center, commissioned by the Office of National Drug Control Policy. It concluded that “marijuana use does not induce violent crime, and the links between marijuana use and property crime are thin.”
You can start out as a bad person, ingest or smoke marijuana, and then be diagnosed with whatever shitty condition you had being linked to marijuana. It's utter nonsense as evidence to any negative effects of the plant.
Someone who did all the real research this guy did bias research. This is a tragic human situation to be teaching your lies to the 2.5k people who saw the video and the few who believe this nonsense. Clean your third eye and see your ability to quit being so submissive to authority. #
psychosis ? define this ..because if it is true that most people dont use. then why is the same sober world so wicked tan by psychopaths and pedophiles and mass murders in power… yet he makes these claims . most those people have layers of drug use and underlining issues .and mix drugs and alcohol..
Another silly shill for the overmedication of America. All the reefer madness loons are dying off, (fortunately), so they've gotta indoctrinate newer generations to follow suit…
Crazy how he was Blowing big pharma almost from the start.
Only ppl that have smoked will know this dude is a piece of sht and should be arrested for spreading bs and mass fear tactics. Btw i haven't smoked in a few yrs so thats called normal anger fyi lol
1. All the statistics used against marijuana in states where it's illegal that he connects to crime hes neglecting to mention those people are displaying traits that could also potentially indicate and be associated with people suffering from psychopathy or the other dark trio/ cluster c disorders etc. A willingness to break the law prior to the use of the marijuana in the state where it's illegal…
2. The cure to the opioid epidemic is Kratom. Plain and simple Kratom.
3. Crime related to Marijuana directly and factually correlated has significantly dropped in all legalized states. If we're gonna start correlating things without any real substantial evidence conclusively showing a correlation I guess we may as well throw all facts out the window.
4. It is not 1% as a addictive as alcohol. I constantly start and quit purely off of forgetting it exist. I'll go for a few months then one day when I'm doing something I'll just forget it exist and not smoke for a few more months? Quitting alcohol or the pain management regime my dr prescribed was hell, quitting marijuana I didn't even realize anyone believed was a real issue. If anyone is saying their addicted it's more than likely a kid lashing out against their parents wanting to rebel anyways or someone who just doesnt wanna stop like someone who wants to eat sushi every day.
5. Why haven't cases of schizophrenia increased with a significant increase of the population using marijuana.
6. What's this guys agenda? Is he getting money from alcohol companies jealous they dont have their own cooking shows centered around their own intoxicating substance lol.
This guy obviously knows that this is the exact narrative an older naive generation wants to hear so he knows the book will sell to those people and hes exploiting that generation and naive religious people by profiting off of it and at the same time more than likely causing or instigating problems amongst families that have family pro and against marijuana legalization. Most of the problems this man is bringing up like 99% can be attributed to the fact it was recently legalized and most the users come from a generation of it being illegal and people still thinking what they we're taught "reefer madness" when it was illegal. This man is doing tremendously more harm than good…
This guy is a hero. I have lived my life completely destroyed by extreme anxiety caused by a couple experiences with this (literally 5 inhales). Fucking legend. About time fucking time. Everyone, everyone, everyone in mental health knows!!!!
Tragic in the sense of education. Consider Portugal with no illegal drugs for 15 years!!! I tell my kid that his musician friends are using THC, his banker friends snorting in the bathroom and his police friends banging down the beers at the BarBQue. You have to have your own code of conduct and strive to advance the human cause. WATCH Portugal,, Amsterdam, Morocco.
Weed is something I enjoy about once a year. I do it just because it's my God given right, and if we don't use it, we lose it. Does it have problems? Sure. If it didn't I'm probably enjoy it a lot more often. I enjoyed it way more in high school than as an adult, because it was new and exciting. But that temporary psychosis just gets less fun over time. It makes me shy, and I like having a clear control of my brain. I think socially, a person who gets high every day, you're more likely to be a communist. But rights trump all, and so naturally there's a conflict, right? Because communism is anti-rights. Ironic, because we have to keep our hands off individuals so they can turn themselves into collectivists… But of course it doesn't have that affect on everyone. I'm not going to listen to this whole thing right now, but if he takes a position against CBD I disagree strongly. About that legalization thing though: Don't legalize it! by doing so you're taking a God given right, and turning it into a privilege. Not a good move, but I expect that from people who are too high to read the 4th and 9th amendments.
Summary: "Pot is bad because my wife said so and I don't want to bother you with the data…"!
unresposible liars…endocanabiod sistem is a part of human body..
I would truly love to talk with Alex as someone who has experienced literally every negative symptom talking point he mentions. Alex, if you happen to read this comment and are interested in talking to a 44 year old american man who experienced psychosis and multiple mental health problems as an absolute and direct result from smoking weed beginning at age 16, please just respond here and we can go from there. Merry Christmas and Happy New Years too
This guy's crazy no he's evil
The Hudson Institute is a Washington DC-based military think tank that advises such groups as The School of the Americas out of Ft. Bragg which trains Central and South American death squads with US equipment, US instructors and on the US public's tax dime.
Hudson's detailed and promoted analyses of "ladders of escalation" and reports on the likely consequences of limited and unlimited nuclear exchanges, eventually published as (1962) and (1965). Connected to the RAND organisation, The Hudson Institute directed the unprecedented military build up in US nuclear arms since the Kennedy Administration … .
And alcohol doesn't cause addiction and aggressive behavior 🤣 gtfo fuckin shit eating hypocrites
This is a joke the people who vilify marijuana have never smoked it nor the people doing the "testing" I have PTSD and without marijuana I don't think I could function in society. Anybody who says differently is trying to sell you something. Point in fact a BOOK of BULLSHIT!
This dude got his ass beat in high school 😂 but not enough stupid bitch.
This guy is wrong. Ive been clean from real hard drugs for quiet a while thanks to SMOKING THE SHIT OUTTA SOME WEED. I was an addict for over 20 years and thanks to expanding my mind through the mighty psylocibin and daily use of marijuana, I changed my life, love my family, go to work, pay my bills and didn't vote Donald Trump. Life can be positive. Just have to open your mind.
smoking pot is degenerate af
The discussion on mental health and marijuana is very important and necessary, but framing this as an argument against legalization is disingenuous. How does this justify the war on drugs whatsoever? Apples and oranges. This is not a good argument against legalization, it's an argument for education about individual mental health and general safety when using alcohol or marijuana. The black market would be gone only if you couldnt smuggle it across state lines so easily, I.e. if the next state and the next and the next has their own weed already, the black market will certainly diminish vastly.
seethe pot smokers
The people who are reacting negatively and leaving negative comments don't smoke marijuana. They're dispassionate and impartial voices. </sarcasm>
If you haven’t smoked weed yourself then you don’t know shit my friend! So listen Mr. Yale you read whatever you want…study away my friend …because after listening to all your bs….and you never burned one yourself …like I said before my dude …seriously you don’t know shit…!!! Back to the drawing board dude you failed!!
I’ve been smoking for 6 years. This is just comedy. Yeah let’s spread false information about a natural medicine. We’re losing too many patients and we’re in fear of losing business. Pathetic.
Isn’t it hilarious how Doctors that prescribe pills are heavily against medical marijuana? Because it takes from their business..
Mental illness and violence?
bruh you dumb as hell
Berenson attempts to back up these stories with a few studies on marijuana and violence. It’s true that some individual studies have found a link, although many conflicting studies have not. This is why it’s better, when evaluating data, to rely on large, rigorous reviews of the evidence.
Such a review exists: In 2013, one was conducted by the RAND Drug Policy Research Center, commissioned by the Office of National Drug Control Policy. It concluded that “marijuana use does not induce violent crime, and the links between marijuana use and property crime are thin.”
You can start out as a bad person, ingest or smoke marijuana, and then be diagnosed with whatever shitty condition you had being linked to marijuana. It's utter nonsense as evidence to any negative effects of the plant.
Someone who did all the real research this guy did bias research. This is a tragic human situation to be teaching your lies to the 2.5k people who saw the video and the few who believe this nonsense. Clean your third eye and see your ability to quit being so submissive to authority. #
I've never hated someone I've never met so passionately in my entire life.
Alex Berenson: Reefer Madness 2.0
Came here to read negative comments about Alex.
Wasn't disappointed.
Where was the blunt you found? Under your wife's car seat? After she cheated on you with Jamal?
This guy’s a total hack.
psychosis ? define this ..because if it is true that most people dont use. then why is the same sober world so wicked tan by psychopaths and pedophiles and mass murders in power… yet he makes these claims . most those people have layers of drug use and underlining issues .and mix drugs and alcohol..
In what part of history does it show people killing other people for weed what a fuck stick
This douchbag Got a degree in economics trying to tell people weeds bad for you what a piece of s*** I wonder who's paying his salary
They lost , it is very real mon ⌚
I came here because the one from hills dale college had comments disabled. Snuffing out counter argument. What a place!
Another silly shill for the overmedication of America. All the reefer madness loons are dying off, (fortunately), so they've gotta indoctrinate newer generations to follow suit…
Crazy how he was Blowing big pharma almost from the start.
Only ppl that have smoked will know this dude is a piece of sht and should be arrested for spreading bs and mass fear tactics. Btw i haven't smoked in a few yrs so thats called normal anger fyi lol
The Hudson institute is a Conservative group that's supposed to be for small government
1. All the statistics used against marijuana in states where it's illegal that he connects to crime hes neglecting to mention those people are displaying traits that could also potentially indicate and be associated with people suffering from psychopathy or the other dark trio/ cluster c disorders etc. A willingness to break the law prior to the use of the marijuana in the state where it's illegal…
2. The cure to the opioid epidemic is Kratom. Plain and simple Kratom.
3. Crime related to Marijuana directly and factually correlated has significantly dropped in all legalized states. If we're gonna start correlating things without any real substantial evidence conclusively showing a correlation I guess we may as well throw all facts out the window.
4. It is not 1% as a addictive as alcohol. I constantly start and quit purely off of forgetting it exist. I'll go for a few months then one day when I'm doing something I'll just forget it exist and not smoke for a few more months? Quitting alcohol or the pain management regime my dr prescribed was hell, quitting marijuana I didn't even realize anyone believed was a real issue. If anyone is saying their addicted it's more than likely a kid lashing out against their parents wanting to rebel anyways or someone who just doesnt wanna stop like someone who wants to eat sushi every day.
5. Why haven't cases of schizophrenia increased with a significant increase of the population using marijuana.
6. What's this guys agenda? Is he getting money from alcohol companies jealous they dont have their own cooking shows centered around their own intoxicating substance lol.
This guy obviously knows that this is the exact narrative an older naive generation wants to hear so he knows the book will sell to those people and hes exploiting that generation and naive religious people by profiting off of it and at the same time more than likely causing or instigating problems amongst families that have family pro and against marijuana legalization. Most of the problems this man is bringing up like 99% can be attributed to the fact it was recently legalized and most the users come from a generation of it being illegal and people still thinking what they we're taught "reefer madness" when it was illegal. This man is doing tremendously more harm than good…
Alex IS A PHONEY PUSHING FAKE NEWS WITH AN AGENDA…,,!!! DON'T believe his crap,,,,!!!!
This guy is a quack
He puts the "fuck this motherfucker and shoot him right now" in shoot him right now..
Funded by pharmaceutical company…who has already proven to be unethical and harmful to public🤔 …
This guy is a hero. I have lived my life completely destroyed by extreme anxiety caused by a couple experiences with this (literally 5 inhales). Fucking legend. About time fucking time. Everyone, everyone, everyone in mental health knows!!!!
Hudson Institute, funded by Big Pharma
Alright, everyone pack up your bongs. Party is over. Back to bible study,
Tragic in the sense of education. Consider Portugal with no illegal drugs for 15 years!!! I tell my kid that his musician friends are using THC, his banker friends snorting in the bathroom and his police friends banging down the beers at the BarBQue. You have to have your own code of conduct and strive to advance the human cause. WATCH Portugal,, Amsterdam, Morocco.