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.
“You didn’t hear about it because you didn’t want to know.”
Or we didn’t hear about it because the legalization pushers didn’t want us to know. Just as with abortion, I think information is suppressed and it takes a deeper search to find out the truth. Sadly, most people today don’t have the attention span for such research.
The difference in modern mj THC content with the mj that went before makes them in different universes as far as potency and effect. I am sure you know this.
I've long been on the Apple ping list. That having been said, this is a thread about pregnant women using marijuana. It's been my experience that anti-Apple bigots take every opportunity to disparage Apple, regardless to its non-relevance to the thread at hand. BTW, I've been involved in IT since the 1960s, more recently (1980s - 2005) supported Microsoft products as a NT/Windows admin maintaining hundreds of servers and desktops in a WAN environment. And an Apple hobbyist since 1977. So let's stick to topic on the thread.
The rate of traffic fatalaties has continued to fall substantially in the last couple of decades, despite MJ’s increasingly legal status in the US. Of the 7 states that border CO, 5 have higher death rates from MV accidents.
http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalityfacts/state-by-state-overview
Hard to make a case that prohibition makes our roads safer.
“Hard to make a case that prohibition makes our roads safer.”
Excuse me. I don’t recall making that point.
“But of course you are not a ‘biased crusader’ for your beloved pot.”
If I disagree with you, then I must love pot. That’s how leftards argue.
ESAD, douche pump. FR is a place where that sort of personal destruction is not welcome. Go on back to DU.
I hope you’re joking, but it is not funny.
People who disagree with you politically are still human. No one should be put down for what they believe, however stupid.
Seriously, a baby is better off in the uterus of someone who vapes pot than someone who gets a flu shot while pregnant. There might be bad sequelae both ways, but there is more chance the system can filter the cannabis out than the neurotoxic flu vaccine ingredients, including the heavy metals.
And when I was pregnant in Europe, my doctor told me to cut down on alcohol (I didn’t drink), down to one or two glasses of wine with dinner, and no more. That was in the 90s. Meaning everyone in Europe is born bathed in alcohol.
If they think they can escape retribution, democrats will kill YOU, in a heartbeat. A good defense is a massive, preemptive offense. I see a LOT of conservatives cringing at the thought.
The time is not yet, but it's pending. I also see a lot of martyr wanna-bees...
Really?? You blame that moral deterioration since the 1800s all on marijuana? That does not make a whole lot of sense to me, its been illegal for 80 years now... If you really want to single out one evil, I think alcohol could take a lot more of the blame than that. The bible warns against strong drink right?
Real curious now, do you believe alcohol should be made illegal again too then? I sure hate how our society has glorified it and the use of it... they show a Monday morning news segment with the crew making some great morning drink to start off your week... There is your moral decay in full view...
Personally, I wish prohibition was never repealed, but I don’t believe its my place to force my beliefs on anybody because we are supposed to be a free country and I thought that is what us conservatives believed in... so in that sense, I can agree with repealing it, but I just cant justify banning a natural plant, in natural form that god put on this earth for us to use. I mean is it even illegal for me to grow poppies?? I believe it’s only illegal to process them into heroin.
The best argument I could give you was a few years ago I was camped out and socializing with a group of off duty police officers and somebody brought up how terrible they thought it was that Colorado had recently legalized... They all turned around and said listen, that stupid plant is the least of our worries and unless your ready to make alcohol illegal again too, STFU because literally every officer I know would jump at the chance to go break up a pot party if it meant they did not have to break up a keg party and deal with all the drunk assholes...
Marijuana was made illegal because, well like in every other case, follow the money... Why else would regular Hemp, with zero thc, a completely non intoxicating plant that still grows wild in the woods in the south, be included in the marijuana ban? Because it grew like a weed literally and anybody could grow it that meant, big pharma could not make money off them and the government could not feasibly tax it. It was also competition to Cotton, Paper and numerous other industries that successfully lobbied against it in the 30’s, pretty much as simple as that.
Humans are still humans until their monstrous acts. Only when someone behaves like a subhuman can we count them as one.
I call BS on this as a general statement. The numbers are going up for one reason, because they are now finally checking for it, they never did before so of course the numbers are going to be increasing. Same as I don’t think use has increased much recreationally in adults, since the medical & legalization waves, I just think more adults will answer that question yes now that it is legal. Colorado has been legal long enough to now have numbers showing that it has not adversely effected teen use numbers.
The actual tests the government has done about driving while on marijuana have had the results downplayed or not even reported because they were inconclusive and or did not show what they wanted them too. I read about them starting some real test project years ago, when states started doing the medical legalization and later went looking for results after I never heard any more about them. They were very mixed results and in many cases the marijuana impaired driver actually drover much better than before because they were simply more careful. Where the report really shined was when they mixed alcohol with marijuana because then all the typical numbers for alcohol impairment skyrocket. I think this report may have been generated off those tests, its about the right time frame
page 11 appears to make a general reference toward that.
“not in the 30s or 40s or50s or 60s”
Lots of them drank,rarely,but enjoyed a cocktail when out to dinner.
A glass of wine occasionally.
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I was agreeing it will probably hurt our country like I think repealing prohibition and making alcohol legal did... Don’t you think its a problem to have 88,000 alcohol related deaths a year? Drunks killing people with their cars... See I personally think repealing prohibition was a HUGE mistake for our country... especially since our government has no problem making laws to protect us from ourselves now...
See that is a true statement, but intended as sarcasm, because I am a conservative (after 31 years in GOP, now registered independent because the GOPe wont support our president) and I always thought we are a free country... at the very least it should be up to the state to decide, not federal (like there are still dry counties right, even though its legal in our country) but most simply put, it all should be a personal choice ESPECIALLY when we are talking about a natural plant god put on this earth for us to use. Most basically, I SHOULD have the right to do ANYTHING that does not infringe upon anybody elses personal rights... Please as a conservative, tell me where is the problem with that line of thinking...
Check out the soaring cancer rate since it was made illegal in 1937... you know THC has been proven to reduce the size of tumors right?
Leave it to our government to be able to get away with claiming there is no medicinal use and it needs to be illegal, all while holding the medicinal patent. The hypocrisy is mind numbing.
Yes. And they usually did not drink while pregnant
In fact my mom didn’t even drink coffee while pregnant....not because she was so pure but the coffee tasted bad when she was pregnant
Sorry but the higher THC content level argument means nothing really to anybody that knows. You still cant OD on THC. George Carlin knew this when he did his joke about not smoking more weed when you are already high... you don’t get any higher, you just have less weed... Truth makes good comedy.
Let me try a different way.
Have you ever taken a pain pill because you needed too and thought why would anybody want to feel like this if they did not have pain and need too? Not everybody takes pain pills to feel high, in fact I never felt high taking an percoset or oxycodone when they were prescribed for me... I felt like crap and I cant understand anybody abusing them at all, but it is done daily.
Well same thing, when my lower back starts hurting after work from getting stuck too many times in high school football and then more damage from a car accident when I was 19 and I don’t want to take that man made poison because it makes me feel like a zombie, so instead, I eat a 100mg rice crispy treat and don’t notice the pain the rest of the evening and fall asleep and get a good nights rest... the only real feeling is heavy tired eyes about a half hour later. Maybe because I am old now and did not eat it to feel high? I don’t know really, I just know I ate it so I could sleep and it worked... BTW, Just don’t make a mistake and eat 100mg sativa edible and plan to go to sleep... Still did not notice the pain, but it will keep you up for a few hours instead, I felt like I could not sit still. Similar to a half a pot of coffee... Every Strains THC is just a little different, some up, some down. The ones they use for kids treatments in autism and epilepsy are very low THC and high CBD more like industrial hemp.
More recently, I have found that the other part of marijuana, CBD instead of the THC part that gets you high, is actually more beneficial... It is 50 state legal, anybody can buy it. A few drops under the tongue will take care of a headache almost instantly and it will work on my back most of the time, unless we have rain and wet weather, which I can usually tell you will be here a couple days before it is.
As a whole the conservative movement looks pretty silly and very hypocritical for falling for the years old reefer madness b/s, I thought we were FOR personal freedom, our stance on this one issue gives the liberal democrats a ton of traction.
It rests upon the assumption that there are good and sufficient reasons for prohibition, but that some conspiracy has hidden them from our view.
I invoke Occam’s razor. Until you produce some real evidence, your argument is groundless.
Actually, the principle of Occam's razor applies very well here. It does not take a conspiracy to remove an idea from the public conscience. All it takes is an all-around lack of interest in promoting a point of view that is contrary to the group narrative. We see this happen all the time--for example, look at all of the great things Trump has accomplished in a year versus the reporting. How many people are actually aware of his impressive list of accomplishments?
And there is plenty of evidence to draw from to make deductive conclusions:
In this case, the principle of Occam's razor tells me that the simplest explanation is that we are in the process of relearning the lessons that people already learned 100 years ago. It's a shame those lessons were not properly documented at the time. Many things weren't, in those days.
Marijuana contains more than just THC. It contains a lot of related chemicals that are both psychoactive and fat soluble.
The active components of marijuana bind to cell surface receptors. That binding causes a cascade of events inside the cell. It is the fact that the THC alters that receptor function, and therefore the events inside the cell, that causes it to have consciousness altering activity. Some other effects of altered receptor function can be toxicity--certain cell types die when exposed to cannabinols, and they are never replaced. I would not be surprised if another effect is to alter the activity of DNA modulating enzymes. This would cause epigenetic changes. Epigenetic changes in an ovum would show up in the behavior and physiology of the baby who resulted from the fertilization and growth of that ovum.
That’s like saying our forefathers are environmentalists who see the dangers of climate change.
Nope. What I said is actually like expressing an opinion that our forefathers were observant and noticed that marijuana users became permanently impaired and unable to function productively. And that our forefathers wanted nothing to do with that.
We are now making the same observations, but in a very careful and systematic manner, through conducting and documenting hundreds of on-going medical research studies all over the world. As the push to legalize marijuana proceeds, more researchers are conducting studies, and the evidence that marijuana can have serious long-term effects is mounting.
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