Is Smoking Weed While Pregnancy Dangerous?

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Is Smoking Weed While Pregnancy Dangerous?

Toking up during pregnancy sounds like a hell of a chill way to stop morning sickness in its track, not to mention the ankle and lower back pain; but are there side effects for the bun in the oven?

Pregnancy comes with a lot of physiological changes. Some women have problems with severe vomiting, nausea, lack of appetite, and pain during pregnancy.  One study found that more than 21 percent of women experience severe symptoms. A quick search will bring up stories of women who choose to use cannabis medicinally to help keep food down, which, they argue, ultimately helps the fetus. Other women choose cannabis over other drugs to manage their pains.

As of now, marijuana is legal for either medicinal or recreational use or for both in several major countries and half of the states of the United States. It now a multi-billion dollar business in some states of the US alone and even bigger worldwide, and more generally it is the most used illicit drug in Canada. It is legalized to made available online dispensary in Canada from there you can buy weed online Canada. There are various products and varieties are available such as Pineapple Express, Budget buds, black diamond strain, and many more. Because it has never been legal on such a scale, people are getting curious about when it is okay to toke up and when it is not; and slowly, as it often does, science is weighing in.

According to a new study in biological psychiatry, as much as 13 percent of women worldwide use cannabis during pregnancy. Pregnancy is already rife with rules, restrictions, and requirements for mothers, but now thanks to this study, there is another; maybe don’t toke up when pregnant. In this research, they compared children who had been exposed to tobacco while in the womb, and children who had been exposed to cannabis while in the womb. The results showed children exposed to cannabis had thicker frontal cortexes.

Some scientists have associated thicker cortexes with higher intelligence, and better executive attention, while others have associated it with lower intelligence in youth and then higher and middle age.  And still, others warn that assuming physical structures tell us anything about intelligence at all is akin to phrenology, the study of bumps on the scalp to tell the future. Obviously, this is not the study on weed, women, and wombs.

An often-cited study from 1994 of only 42 Jamaican children found no measurable difference in the children of pot smoking mothers and non-weed smoking mothers that could not be explained by socioeconomic status. But other studies have shown newborns of toking mothers tremble more, have different responses to stimuli, and have neurological deficiencies in areas of problem-solving, memory, and attention. The World Health Organization (WHO) says children exposed to cannabis in uterus demonstrate impaired attention, learning and memory, impulsivity and behavioral problems and a higher likelihood of using cannabis when they mature.

Even though marijuana can help appetite, nausea, and vomiting for cancer patients, it is important to mention, some governments or states will remove children from parents if the newborn test positive for THC in their stool. Obviously, we cannot and would not call any of this a “medical Advice”; we are not doctors or scientists. But the American Medical Association, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the World Health Organization all recommend against the use of marijuana during pregnancy. Regardless, as the nation’s grip on control over marijuana loosens and it becomes legal, decriminalized, or openly accessible in more places, women may choose to self-medicate with marijuana pregnancy-associated complications just like people can buy Anavar online to overcome their insufficient nutrition. And because the science is still ongoing, no one can provide these women with true risks of that behavior, which preliminary findings seem to indicate, do exist. More studies and researches are desperately needed in this aspect so people can be educated about this.

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