A New Book Says Cannabis Use Leads to Violence. Two Oregonians Fire Back.

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As the modern recreational weed industry redeems the inequities of the War on Drugs with blunts and gummies, author Alex Berenson says the rosy promise of weed is a dangerous lie in his new book, Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence. The Willamette Week gave two Oregon experts—University of Oregon economics professor Ben Hansen, who studies the relationship between drugs and crime, and Adie Wilson-Poe, a neuroscientist who also runs a Portland-based cannabis services company—an opportunity to refute him.

Source: Willamette Week

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