Cannabis use in pregnancy

[AnoneyMousey]

Hey all.

Just up for a healthy debate/discussion on this subject as I was talking about it with my friends a few weeks ago and wondered what the general opinion was.

Obviously going anon for this 😊

I smoked weed through my pregnancy (no tobacco) - I started due to severe morning sickness and not being able to keep food down, and had done a lot of research online before hand.

My son is now almost 4 and is very advanced. He's at the same developmental age as a 7/8 year old (as stated by 2 drs and a health visitor)

A close friend of mine smoked weed during her pregnancy and her daughter is top of her class, getting top marks in every subject and is just in general really intelligent.

From the research I've done online and other parents I've reached out to and spoken to about them smoking weed during their pregnancies and how intelligent and happy and healthy their children are now.

There have never been any recorded deaths from cannabis, or any side effects in newborns etc.

It's proven to have cancer killing agents and helps with so many other illnesses such as MS and depression.


Why is this still illegal?!

[Gogo11]

Thank you for this I hope your family is well

[Sweetpeasaremadeofcheese]

My Mum smoked with only one of the 4 of her kids. She is by FAR the most successful and the smartest. (PhD, career etc.)

[ArthurApples]

Zombie thread

[Maggiesfarm]

You didn't mix it with tobacco so it wouldn't have caused harm.

[GetTaeFuck]

Christ, people will do anything to justify their substance abuse during pregnancy.

[Mumoftwo2021]

Did you manage to also come across the studies on the negative affects or just ones that support your argument.
Disgusting drug and should stay illegal, I used it when not pregnant for the first time ever and i got drug induced psychosis and ended up locked in a mental hospital so it’s not all rainbows and happy feelings away from my children and family , it’s as bad as any other drug and can be very dangerous.
I say don’t f* with your unborn child let them make the decision themselves if they wish to ingest any drugs 🤨

[KailaLeigh01]

Eh yeah they do because my doctor literally said that to me

[MrsCobain]

I used to use lots of drugs regularly.

I'm for the legalisation of drugs. Weed is legal where I live.

I had severe hg, was throwing up 30+ times a day and hospitalised 3 times.

I still wouldn't even consider smoking during pregnancy.

[GuardianOfMyGalaxy]

I've only ever tried cannabis once when I was younger. I slept for about 16 hours straight after. I very much doubt that's a good idea in pregnancy/with a newborn.

The only thing I've ever seen that could be seen as a positive to smoking before/during pregnancy was a study that claimed that smokers are 90 ish% less likely to develop pre eclampsia that non smokers, but they didn't know why.

[RockinHippy]

Got to say, I do find these sort of threads weird, the replies are so often ott & image every person who ever owns up to taking a draw on a joint is a drug addict, yet drinking copious amounts of wine or gin is seemingly encouraged

[RockinHippy]

Just spotted your further post OP, sounds like you know of the study already. I read it some 12 years or so back, very interesting reading

[RockinHippy]

I think this is the study you are looking for.... www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1957518


I smoked early on in pregnancy, before knowing that I was pregnant, I stopped when I found out & only smoked once again on my wedding day (I don't drink & I wanted to relax & let my hair down after a long & stressful day)


I read up a lot at the time as I was worried, no need, everything I read said no harm. I can't link now, as it was many years back, but might be worth your trying to find the articles if possible. There was a bigger study done into early school years, it was set up with the intention of showing cannabis to be harmful, but it proved the opposite, so it was buried.

Personally, my experience has been the same as your own

[YoJesse]

For me pregnancy was a chance to stop smoking shit tons of weed each day and ditto with alcohol and frequent use of other drugs recreationally. It gave me hope to be a good person and I was clean during my pregnancy and for most of breastfeeding. It's an opportunity.

[BillyButtfuck]

This is also the worst debate ever, you've only acknowledged the one post which agrees with you in the slightest.

[User2468]

This is MN, all our children are very advanced, regardless of cannabis intake!

Actually mine's slightly below average, who needs to be developmentally advanced anyway, it doesn't guarantee success in life [she tells herself... I didn't want a child genius anyway 😂]

[UnbornMortificado]

Dr's will tell you to have a glass of wine during pregnancy or that if you smoke cigarettes when you get pregnant to not stop because of the withdrawal impact on mother and baby

Bollocks do they, I was a 40 a day smoker I stopped.

Someone smoking cannabis everyday is a drug addict. There's no sugarcoating the fact, addiction isn't fun and it isn't "cool" it's a horrible way to live.

[BillyButtfuck]

Someone once told me their doctor told them not to quit smoking during pregnancy because the stress of giving up is more harmful than the actual smoking to the unborn baby. I didn't believe it then and I don't believe it now.

[Gallavich]

Dr's will tell you to have a glass of wine during pregnancy or that if you smoke cigarettes when you get pregnant to not stop because of the withdrawal impact on mother and baby

You're barmy! Doctors do not tell you that at all. The withdrawal impact of nicotine is absolutely negligible. It might feel unpleasant while it's happening but in terms of physical effects it's barely more than zero. There is certainly no negative effect on the foetus of withdrawing from nicotine that is not balanced and massively outweighed by the benefits of no longer being exposed to nicotine.

[PhilODox]

This is MN, all our children are very advanced, regardless of cannabis intake!

I assume your proposal means that Jamaicans and Indians from low-income families are super-selective and way ahead of their peers?
Hmm... not really any evidence of that, is there? The reason so many lower-income Indian families get into higher education is the quota system, not their grades!

[SmurfPants]

You've still not offered any evidence or argument to support your stance that smoking weed in pregnancy is safe. That's not a debate, you're just saying you did it.

[HeyRoly]

Doctors do not tell women to carry on smoking during pregnancy because "the stress of withdrawal is worse than cigarettes".

That's a lie smokers tell themselves to ease the guilt.

[Tobolsk]

I wouldn't take drugs, and class myself as pretty anti drug (however weed does seem to have some medicinal benefits)

However I also believe all drugs should be legalized. People should be responsible for themselves. If they want to go and OD on Heroin then that's there choice that they should be free to make.

[AnoneyMousey]

There was a study during the 80's on cannabis and pregnancy but it was shut down due to the findings being positive and not negative, which is what the people funding the research were looking for.

[Gallavich]

There are loads and loads of things that are helpful and not harmful but which could harm foetal development in utero
I completely agree that cannabinoids probably do have beneficial properties in some applications but your question was about use during pregnancy

[AnoneyMousey]

A debate in which no one is attacked would be super 😆

The links weren't irrelevant, maybe to the pregnancy but they still show the positives of cannabis use.

It's pretty much legal across the board in the USA as well as Holland. Can you provide legitimate evidence that it causes illness or diseases?

Dr's will tell you to have a glass of wine during pregnancy or that if you smoke cigarettes when you get pregnant to not stop because of the withdrawal impact on mother and baby. But smoking a bit of weed to ease morning sickness (instead of pumping man made chemicals into my body) and to help with anxiety and depression is such an evil thing?

BTW I don't smoke around my son now obviously.

I'll have a joint when he's tucked up in bed. No different to having a glass of wine in my opinion.