#1246 - Pot Debate - Alex Berenson & Dr. Michael Hart
Alex Berenson is a former reporter for The New York Times and the author of several thriller novels and a book on corporate financial filings. His new book "Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence" is available now via Amazon. Dr. Michael Hart is the founder and medical director of Readytogo clinic, a medical cannabis clinic in London, Ontario, Canada.
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- Duration
- 2h 55m
- Broadcast on
- 12 Feb 2019
- Audio Format
- other
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Alex Berenson is a former reporter for The New York Times and the author of several thriller novels and a book on corporate financial filings. His new book "Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence" is available now via Amazon. Dr. Michael Hart is the founder and medical director of Readytogo clinic, a medical cannabis clinic in London, Ontario, Canada.
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- Two, one, and we're live, ladies and gentlemen. Or gentlemen, you too. Ladies and gentlemen listening, but YouTube, unless you have some non-binary handle that you enjoy. It's a new world. - I got it. - Please, please introduce yourself. - Sure, so I'm Dr. Mike Hart, originally from St. John's, Newfoundland. Now, I'm residing in London, Ontario, and I'm a family doctor. And I've been practicing Canvas Medicine for just over five years. - And you, sir. My name's Alex Farinson. I used to be a New York Times reporter. Then I became a spy novelist. And most recently, I wrote the book, Tell Your Children, The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness and Violence, which came out last month and has not endeared me to the cannabis advocacy community, I'd say. - Have they attacked you mercilessly for this book? - Yes, they have. - And that's okay. I've also heard from a lot of parents, you know, some users, but parents who've told me that the book really encapsulates their family's problems in the last couple of years. - I suspect my real thoughts here, before we even get started, is that we're gonna find that The Truth is somewhere in the middle here. I don't think marijuana is 100% safe, honestly, for everybody. I really don't. I know too many people that have had experiences where they took too much, particularly edibles. And I wanna say, I know anybody who had psychotic breaks, but I know some people that freaked out for weeks. You know, in fact, we just had a comedian here from Brazil a couple of days ago, Rafi Bastos, who said he took a couple of hits of a vape pen, he was high for 14 days, went to a psychiatrist, and he's a big guy. He's like six foot five, six, six. You know, and they told him to keep taking it 'cause he's like, you're so big, just keep smoking. And so he doesn't smoke. So he just kept hitting his vape pen.
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Alex Berenson is a former reporter for The New York Times and the author of several thriller novels and a book on corporate financial filings. His new book "Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence" is available now via Amazon. Dr. Michael Hart is the founder and medical director of Readytogo clinic, a medical cannabis clinic in London, Ontario, Canada.
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