Alarm, horror and recrimination followed the finding, released last year, that cannabis use among pregnant women had doubled since 2002.<\/p>\n
A whopping five percent of pregnant women reported using marijuana during their pregnancies,\u00a0according to a report published in JAMA<\/a> \u2014 and of 12,000 women surveyed, 3,500 used cannabis during the first trimester.<\/p>\n Considering that there are 6.2 million pregnancies in America a year<\/a>, a few thousand weed users doesn\u2019t exactly qualify as a public-health crisis \u2014\u00a0especially<\/i>\u00a0when you consider that\u00a010 percent of pregnant women report smoking cigarettes during pregnancy<\/a> \u2014 although the reaction from the medical community was\u00a0a swift and unequivocal \u201cdon\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Unlike prenatal tobacco use, which we know is bad, it bears mentioning that\u00a0nobody is sure exactly<\/a>\u00a0what motherly marijuana use does to a developing fetus. (Although according to some very famous studies out of Jamaica, prenatal marijuana use had no appreciable effect on a young person\u2019s development, which has everything to do with what happens in the years\u00a0after<\/i>\u00a0a baby is born.) That knowledge gap didn\u2019t stop the\u00a0predictable prohibitionist mob<\/a>\u00a0from accusing the marijuana industry of organized poisoning of the unborn and\u00a0smearing<\/a>\u00a0any marijuana-using mother with a similarly ugly brush.<\/p>\n So why do pregnant women do this, despite the uncertainty, despite the warnings, despite the mob (of men, mostly) telling them they are bad and wrong and stupid to do this to their babies? Because being pregnant makes them feel terrible and using some cannabis makes them feel better,\u00a0according to a new study<\/a>\u00a0published in the March 1 issue of\u00a0Drug and Alcohol Dependence<\/i>.<\/a><\/p>\n Confirming anecdotal reports and fulfilling common sense, researchers from Kaiser Permanente Northern California, led by Kelly C. Young-Wolff, took a look at survey data from 220,510 women who\u2019d used their hospital system for their natal care between 2009 and 2016. Of those, 17 percent reported nausea and vomiting symptoms severe enough to qualify as a pathology categorized as \u201cnausea and vomiting in pregnancy\u201d (or NVP). While NVP is most often just plain unpleasant, and not connected to birth defects, it can become so severe that the mother can\u2019t stay hydrated and loses up to 5 percent of her body weight<\/a>.<\/p>\n About 11 percent of women with NVP reported using marijuana during pregnancy<\/a> \u2014 compared to 5.8 percent of women who did not.<\/p>\n \u201cThe elevated prevalence of marijuana use across years among pregnant women with NVP is notable,\u201d the authors wrote.<\/p>\n One reason why is women do this is that they fail to see the harm, \u201cdespite potential risks and national guidelines that advise strongly against marijuana use in pregnancy.\u201d In other words, it would appear that when faced with the choice of feeling like trash or smoking a little bit of weed, an increasing number of women are choosing the latter.<\/p>\n The study authors suggested that clinicians inform mothers that diet choices and other interventions might be able to solve their nausea woes \u2014 and to not smoke weed, even if medicine isn\u2019t quite yet sure what harm it poses.<\/p>\n In some states, this trend has led lawmakers to propose slapping warning labels on marijuana. In Michigan, the labels would say all we can say at this point: that smoking weed might harm the fetus.<\/p>\n A very rare agreement between me and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: Michigan lawmaker proposes marijuana warning labels for pregnant women https:\/\/t.co\/QPR4sqMX7t<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Steve Dudley, M.D. (@bsdudley) February 7, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n In context, it would seem energies are better focused on getting mothers to eschew tobacco during pregnancies, given that more women smoke cigarettes during their pregnancies than use cannabis, and given that we know it\u2019s bad. Until we know more about marijuana, it\u2019s probably wisest to advise mothers to also steer clear of weed, but that\u2019s an argument you have to have in context, with a woman who is very tired of vomiting and is eager for any solution.<\/p>\n TELL US,<\/b>\u00a0have you ever used cannabis for nausea?<\/p>\n The post Study: More Pregnant Women Are Using Cannabis for Nausea<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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