Is Marijuana Use Harmful to Pregnancy

I found this article to be really interesting because the study was done on the effects of ganja use during pregnancy in Jamaica. One of her studies showed that children of the ganja using mothers were superior to the other children in two ways. The children had better organization and modulation of sleeping and waking and were less prone to stress related anxiety. Dr. Melanie Dreher also found that the marijuana helped relieve morning sickness it also helped prevent depression and fatigue and improved the mother's appetites. She also reported that there was no signs of birth defects or behavioral problems following up to age seven years.

When she compared marijuana using mothers babys to non marijuana using babies she found that the quality of alertness in the marijuana babies was much higher then the others. There motor and autonomic systems where more robust, they were less irritable and they needed less examiner facillitation to become organized. They also had better self regulation and they were judged to be more rewarding for the caregivers then the babies of the non using mothers at one month of age. Dr. Melanie Dreher has studied this for thirty years and has nothing bad to say about marijuana use during preganany. I know of some people who were actully prescribed marijuana for there mourning sickness and it helped them and there baby was fine. I don't see anything wrong with a pregnant mother smoking marijuana only if it is Prescribed to them. Other then that I think that a mother should take care of her self and her baby.

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