You don't expect the New Yorker and Mother Jones to be places where you read anti-marijuana articles, but Tell Your Children, the new book by former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson is knocking some people flat. The book examines what we know scientifically about marijuana use, and it turns out to be pretty damn scary.
I have never been a pot smoker, though back in my youth, I ate space cake in Amsterdam. Meh. I've always had ambivalent views about marijuana legalization. I can't stand the way the stuff smells, and found the people I hung out with in college who were big fans of it to be incapable of talking about much else. But I accepted the line that pot was largely harmless. I don't like the fact that it's being legalized everywhere, but couldn't come up with a compelling reason to oppose it. I chalked that up to social custom. Frankly, I didn't much care.
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