Talk:Cannabis in pregnancy

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Potential effects observable in perinatal period
A study of 600 mothers found that smoking cannabis during pregnancy was not associated with increased risk of perinatal mortality.

A study of 100 women who used cannabis throughout their pregnancies, as well as their babies' first year, found an association between prenatal exposure to cannabis and low birth weight.

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In a 1991 study, the development of 59 Jamaican children was monitored from birth to age 5 using the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale and the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities. The results after five years showed no statistically significant developmental differences between using and non-using mothers. The only difference observed was at 30 days of age, when the children of cannabis-using mothers had better autonomic stability and reflexes. Another similar study on Jamaican children found that children who had been exposed to cannabis prenatally had no significant differences from non-exposed infants at three days of age, and were better in some cognitive tests at one month of age.

Some studies have found that children of tobacco and cannabis-smoking mothers more frequently suffer from lasting cognitive deficits, concentration disorders, hyperactivity, and impaired social interactions than non-exposed children of the same age and social background.

However, the previously discussed studies on Jamaican children conflict with this conclusion. On this discrepancy, "Medicine hunter" Chris Kilham noted in an interview with Manny Alvarez, "In US studies where we've seen a similar investigation, women have concurrently been abusing alcohol and other drugs as well".

Potential sources
A PubMed search restricted to reviews on "pregnancy cannabis" yields many results-- here is a small sampling of the most recent. (Click on the PMC link for free full text and the PMID link for abstracts only.) Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 03:33, 2 December 2013 (UTC)



Irner TB 2011
Per request at Talk:Effects of cannabis, quotes from. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 19:54, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

babies with mothers who use pot are probably raised by the same mothers - more likely the problem than the pot. 2601:181:8301:4510:555D:DFDD:1178:691A (talk) 23:39, 30 October 2016 (UTC)