I’ve been hypothesizing this for the last few years. There’s been a surge in autism diagnoses. Well, what are significant numbers of women of child-bearing age doing differently than they were 20, 40 years ago? Where I live (San Francisco), this drug is insanely popular. I can barely walk down any street without smelling it. You should see all the clean-cut, well-groomed 20-30-something women who line up at the cannabis dispensary on Lombard Street for their mind-numbing weed.
My sister is 37 weeks pregnant..she can smell from the next door neighbor, at night, smoking weed..my aunts (Who is 79) her son who is 45 he is severely autistic, been in a group home basically his entire life he was fine til he was about 2 yrs old and just stopped talking..she never did weed..the only thing she ever did differently than her other kids is she had an issue with a gas line in the house and she could smell gas and didnt leave the house while they were fixing it, she thinks that exposure caused his autism..who knows everyone has an opinion
Verdict is still out, but I've contended that the ubiquity of antidepressants is a big contender for cause. Marijuana use is interesting, though.
Many of us alive today were born to mothers who smoked while we were in utero. I don't support it per se, but aside from low birth weight, tobacco use by expectant mothers doesn't appear to be a factor for mental incapacity.
Where I am living, it smells like a skunk factory >,<
(I hate the crap. myself)