[Aussie Dasher]

So much for this so-called "harmless, recreational" drug!

[thoughtomator]

You ever see what alcohol can do to a fetus?

[Mike Bates]

"I guess it's a little surprising in that we found cannabis use seemed to have quite a significant impact on the baby," she said.

I am shocked.

[RobRoy]

That was an amazing article. I honestly expected to find damning evidence, but I kept catching myself saying, where's the beef. Then I was at the end and even the "heavy smoker" line was added, to further downplay the "non-news" here. There was no beef - only a few bacon bits.

Not that cannabis is completely harmless, but what I gleaned from this article is that if I am about to be concieved and have a choice of one of four women to carry me to term and one was a chain smoker, another an alcoholic, another a pothead and another did none of them at all, my order of choice would be as follows:

1 "Clean" mom
2. Pot smoker
3. Chain smoker
4. Alcoholic.

What is interesting is that number 2 is illegal and numbers three and four are legal. Amazing...

Although it is clear that dope is not completely benign, if this is all they could come up with, I am not seeing much here. Most of the negative statements were just anecdotal remarks. The "facts" were weak

[RobRoy]

>>Dr Burns says while any drug use during pregnancy can be harmful to the unborn child, the effect of cannabis smoking has previously been down-played. <<

This article does a very good job of downplaying it further. Unless I am missing something here, the only negatives they found was the possibility of premature and lower birthrate but, even then, gave no statistics. Was it a 1% chance, a 90% chance? Who knows.

This article is the type of stuff I read in the 1970's. It is just poor. It is also sad because I simply cannot believe that grass is really that benign.