Description: With marijuana use soaring and states from coast to coast legalizing the drug, Alex Berenson warns that the media and cannabis advocates have deeply misled Americans about the drug's safety. This book reveals that hard truths that cannabis legalizers would prefer to ignore.
Brief description: Alex Berenson is a former New York Times reporter and award-winning novelist. He attended Yale University and joined the Times in 1999, where he covered everything from the drug industry to Hurricane Katrina and served as a correspondent in Iraq. In 2006, The Faithful Spy, his debut novel, won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel. He has since written twelve more novels and a nonfiction book, Tell Your Children. Currently, he lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife and children.
Review Quotes: "[Alex Berenson] has a reporter's tenacity, a novelist's imagination, and an outsider's knack for asking intemperate questions. The result is disturbing."