About the Author

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.

Reviews

"[Alex Berenson] has a reporter's tenacity, a novelist's imagination, and an outsider's knack for asking intemperate questions. The result is disturbing."
*The New Yorker*

“Takes a sledgehammer to the promised benefits of marijuana legalization, and cannabis enthusiasts are not going to like it one bit.”
*—Mother Jones*

“A brilliant antidote to all the…false narratives about pot out there.”
*—American Thinker*

“An intensively researched and passionate dissent from the now prevailing view that marijuana is relatively harmless.”
*—The Marshall Project*

"Berenson has done an important public service...[Tell Your Children] could save a few lives."
*—The Guardian*

"The stakes are high...aren't we better off listening to Berenson than to some marijuana magnate?"
*—The Spectator*

"An interesting book that should be read by all concerned."
*—The Washington Times*

"Filled with statistics that shock."
*—The Times of London*