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Cannabis and Pregnancy: Effects on Woman’s Health

In the October 11th, 2021 edition of Contemporary OB/GYN, authors (Lo, Hanna & Hedges) offer guidance to medical providers working with women who use marijuana and specific concerns for those patients that are perinatal or prenatal. The authors cite concerns over the increased levels of THC potency in recent years. Specifically, the lack of understanding […]

Prenatal Cannabis Use & Risks: A New Study

A study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), “The Associations between prenatal cannabis use disorder and neonatal outcomes” (Y. Shi et.al) examines potential health issues of newborns of mothers with a cannabis use disorder (CUD) at the time of delivery. Researchers reviewed over 4.8 million California birth records from 2001 – 2012. […]

Associations Between Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and Childhood Outcomes

Read Time: <10 minutes Date: September 23, 2020 A recent publication in the  Journal of the American Medical Association – Psychiatry (JAMA Psychiatry,  September 23, 2020) detailed a study from the University of Washington (St. Louis, MO) by authors S.E. Paul (et.al) regarding the prenatal exposure to  marijuana and later adverse childhood outcomes. The report concluded that the […]