Malcolm Gladwell: Is marijuana as safe as we think?
Malcolm Gladwell, the author of several bestsellers including Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, just published an article in The New Yorker on the difference between permitting and promoting cannabis use. In it, he discusses the links between cannabis use and mental health.
This article has caused quite a stir for its strong anti-cannabis agenda, but more importantly for misinterpretation of scientific literature. Dan Levitan, science journalist and author of Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science, rebutted several Gladwell's arguments in a series of impassioned Tweets.