Posted on 01/01/2018 9:24:04 AM PST by MarvinStinson
California - A new study has found that smoking marijuana is increasing among pregnant women in California, which leads to health concerns about the unborn child.
The study was published on Dec. 26 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, according to Fox News, and used the medical records of 279,000 women residing in California who were on Kaiser Permanente, a health care service.
Women who agreed to participate were asked to answer a questionnaire when they were about eight weeks pregnant, and take a drug test to see if they tested positive for marijuana use. In the study, researchers found that marijuana consumption among pregnant women in the state has risen from 2009 to 2016 from 4.2 percent to 7.1 percent.
Kelly Young-Wolff, the study’s lead researcher, and Dr. Nancy Goler, a researcher, said their study shows how marijuana might potentially harm an unborn child.
"Our study is important because it addressed key limitations of prior studies by investigating trends in prenatal marijuana use using data from a large California health care system with gold standard universal screening for prenatal marijuana use," Goler and Young-Wolff told Reuters.
"We were concerned to find that the prevalence of marijuana use in pregnancy is increasing more quickly among younger females, aged 24 and younger, and to see the high prevalence of use in this age group," Young-Wolff said.
Both Young-Wolff and Goler noted marijuana was the “most commonly used illegal drug during pregnancy,” and could “impair fetal growth and neuro-development,” Reuters reported.
Marijuana use may be on the rise because recent legalization of its recreational use in some states "has made people think of the drug as less dangerous, even during pregnancy," according to Barbara Yankey, a researcher at Georgia State University.
"Because of the possibility of concurrent use of marijuana and other substances of abuse, the evidence of its direct association with preterm labor, fetal growth restriction, preterm birth, low birthweight and stillbirth is still debatable, though these adverse effects lean more towards an increased likelihood of occurrence," Yankey said.
“The more we study cannabis use during pregnancy, the more we are realizing how harmful it can be,” Dr. Marcel Bonn-Miller, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia said. She was not involved in the study.
California will make recreational marijuana possession legal in 2018.
moderation—one glass of wine a week should suffice—actually good for mother and baby.
as opposed to being a drunk
difference between obeying the speed limit and speeding.
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Once the baby is born....in utero alcohol can damage development. (can and does)
“You don’t know much about women’s useage of either alcohol or cigarettes in the mid twentieth century”
Yeah, who should I believe, my own lying eyes, or the hysterics of biased crusaders?
Again, moderation.
Smoking was considered de classe by women up until the forties or so....drinking was not routine by women in general until after the mid fifties
You know a few examples becase of people you know. That is a comparatively small sample
I made no comment about women smoking during pregnancy initially. You threw that in. It is drinking during pregnancy that has the damaging effects on babies in utero. Culturally women were not big drinkers because if a woman was a big drinker she was considered loose and of low morals
No not when pregnant
There is no reason to drink alcohol when pregnant. If one can’t stop for nine months then one ought to look at that
Two concepts....we KNOW of....and dangerous..
Did the doctor say we know everything about mj? No.
What did the doctor mean by dangerous?
Did by not dangerous did he mean is was not immediately toxic? Or not explosive or corrosive? Is it dangerous if a bus driver is using it?
Much more is known about mj now and it is best to use more information when assessing mjs risks and benefits.
Agreed - the doctor's comments were relevant to the question of why marijuana was criminalized.
"The fatal crash study does not determine whether drivers were impaired".
Potheads are also very ‘scientific’ in their defense of their beloved pot.
Just ask them.
But of course you are not a ‘biased crusader’ for your beloved pot.
Pothead NobleFree gets antogonistic when he is nailed.
Give us some more Soros talking points, pothead.
Projection.
NobleFree and his fellow marijuana promoters aren’t bright enough to realize they are tools of George Soros.
I just go by what I hear on the tv, radio and other news from marijuana users who claim that it is good for your health and doesn’t have any bad side effects. If you are a marijuana user, I don’t know and don’t care.
It does have well established medical uses.
and doesn’t have any bad side effects.
I've never heard that said; anyone who says that is a fool.
I live in Oregon. There are 8 marijuana shops within a mile of my house, in a good neighborhood.
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