toking up during pregnancy sounds like a
helical way to stop that morning
sickness in its tracks not to mention
the ankle and lower back pain but are
there side effects for the bun in the
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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 more than 21%
of women experienced 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 help manage their pain as of
June of 2016 weed is legal for either
medicinal or recreational use or both in
half of the states plus the District of
Columbia it's now a billion-dollar
business in Colorado alone and is more
generally the most used illicit drug in
the US because it has never been legal
on such a scale people are getting
curious about when it's okay to toke up
and when it's 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 from others but now
thanks to this study there's another
maybe don't toke up when pregnant their
research compared children who'd been
exposed to tobacco while in the womb and
children who'd been exposed to cannabis
while in the womb the results showed
children exposed to cannabis have
thicker frontal cortices though to be
honest it's not clear what that means
some scientists have associated thicker
frontal cortices with higher
intelligence and better executive
attention while others have associated
it with lower intelligence and use and
then higher in middle age and still
others warned 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
isn't the only study on weed women and
wombs an off cited study from 1994 of
only 42 Jamaican children found no
measurable difference in the children of
pot smoking moms and non pot smoking
moms that couldn't be explained by
socioeconomic status but other studies
have show
newborns of toking moms tremble more
have different responses to stimuli and
have neurological deficiencies in areas
of problem-solving memory and attention
the World Health Organisation says quote
children exposed to cannabis in utero
demonstrate impaired attention learning
and memory impulsivity and behavioral
problems and higher likelihood of using
cannabis when they mature and even
though marijuana can help appetite
nausea and vomiting for cancer patients
it's important to mention some states
will remove children from parents if the
newborn tests positive for THC in their
stool obviously we cannot and would not
call any of this medical advice we're
not doctors but the American Medical
Association the National Institute on
Drug Abuse and the World Health
Organization all recommend against
preggo pot use 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 for
pregnancy associated complications and
because the science is still ongoing no
one can provide these women with the
true risks of that behavior which
preliminary findings seem to indicate do
exist more research is desperately
needed like yesterday unfortunately
there are so many confounding variables
and unknowns in pregnancy for now true
scientific conclusions are caught in a
bit of a purple haze look sometimes when
people get a little weed and then they
get a little frisky what if you're
pregnant can you still have sex sure you
can find out why that is a ok right here
with my girl Natalia not only is it safe
there are actual health benefits to
boning down doctors have reported that
sex during pregnancy can have a calming
effect help a woman fall asleep and
lower blood pressure are you worried
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