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Weed is a drug derived from the plant Cannabis sativa. It’s used for recreational and medicinalpurposes.
What a mom-to-be puts on her skin, eats, and smokes affects her baby. Weed is one substance that can potentially impact a developing baby’s health. "
Weed is the most commonly used illicit drug during pregnancy. Studies have tried to estimate the exact number of pregnant women who use weed, but results vary.
According to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), 2 to 5 percent of women use weed during pregnancy. This number goes up for certain groups of women. For example, young, urban, and socioeconomically disadvantaged women report higher rates of use that reach up to 28 percent."
Doctors have linked weed use during pregnancy with increased risk for complications. These may include:
Researchers mostly study the effects of weed use during pregnancy on animals. Experts say exposure to THC can affect a baby’s brain developmentTrusted Source.
Babies born to mothers who smoke weed during pregnancy don’t have serious signs of withdrawal. However, other changes may be noted.
Research is ongoing, but a baby whose mother used weed during pregnancy may have problems as they get older. The research isn't clear: Some older research reports no long-term developmental differences, but newer research is showing some problems for these children.
THC is considered a developmental neurotoxin by some. A child whose mother used weed during pregnancy may have trouble with memory, attention, controlling impulses, and school performance. More research is needed. "
The growing popularity of vape pens has led weed users to switch from smoking the drug to “vaping.” Vape pens use water vapor instead of smoke.
Many pregnant women mistakenly think vaping or eating weed doesn’t harm their baby. But these preparations still have THC, the active ingredient. As a result, they can harm a baby. We just don’t know if it’s safe, and therefore is not worth the risk. "
So some, may want to read up on their individual states Marijuana Laws?
Because some might be breaking the very law, that made their recreation marijuana use, to begin with?
Just because something like recreational marijuana, has been legalized, that doesn't mean that the recreational marijuana user, can use the drug, whenever they feel its self appropriate, to do so?
Being that those individual state's Marijuana Laws, do not support, that type of mindset?
Below is Colorado's Marijuana Law, read what it says, verses what it doesn't?
https://www.coloradopotguide.com/marijuana-laws-in-colorado/