Marijuana is dangerous

The May 2019 issue of First Things includes Peter Hitchens's review of Alex Berenson's book Tell Your Children: The Truth about Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence.  Berenson's wife Jacqueline, a psychiatrist who evaluates mentally ill criminals, told her husband that most violent criminals smoke marijuana their whole lives.   The logical conclusion:

Marijuana can make you permanently crazy ... and once it has made you crazy, it can make you violent, too.

Berenson's book describes the pro-marijuana propaganda created by marijuana zealots and entrepreneurs and quotes one as saying "Medical marijuana is a way of protecting a subset of society from arrest." In other words, medical marijuana is "bogus."  Hitchens opposes not only marijuana legalization but also decriminalization, because the latter leads to de facto legalization, and "if marijuana is legal, how will we keep cocaine and ecstasy illegal?" Or heroin or LSD?

Marijuana is dangerous; tell your children.