Posted on 01/29/2018 5:16:29 AM PST by simpson96
Two-year old Maverick Hawkins sits on a red plastic car in his grandmother's living room in the picturesque town of Nevada City, Calif., in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. His playpal Delilah Smith, a fellow 2-year old, snacks on hummus and cashews and delights over the sounds of her Princess Peppa stuffie.
It's playtime for the kids of the provocatively named Facebook group "Pot Smoking Moms Who Cuss Sometimes."
Maverick's mother, Jenna Sauter, started the group after he was born. "I was a new mom, a young mom — I was 22 — and I was just feeling really lonely in the house, taking care of him," she says. She wanted to reach out to other mothers but didn't want to hide her marijuana use.
"I wanted friends who I could be open with," Sauter says — "like I enjoy going to the river and I like to maybe smoke a joint at the river."
When Jenna Sauter's youngest son, Axel, tested positive for THC — marijuana's active ingredient — after he was born, she got a home visit from local social services. Sauter says she and her friends don't smoke near their children.
"It's not like being totally out of it," Sauter says. "I'm completely aware of my surroundings. I'm watching my kid, watching my friends' kids. I'm hanging out. You totally know what's going on."
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And people wonder why there so many title one schools duh.
Sorry I missed the /s wasn’t sure .
No weed, no alcohol, no tobacco during pregnancy. If you can’t put it down then seek help for addiction.
I think the primary concerns regarding smoking during pregnancy is that it may be linked to low birth weight for the newborn, and possibly to childhood asthma.
By the way, I did not say it is unsafe to smoke during pregnancy.
Having raised one adopted child born withdrawing from drugs and currently raising the second I can’t begin to tell you the harm caused these little ones. Anyone who does drugs during pregnancy should lose the child and be sterilized before they can harm another innocent life
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