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Why should you avoid marijuana during pregnancy?

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify">Marijuana is a drug that is usually used for medicinal and recreational purposes&period; However the latter weighs out the former&&num;8217&semi;s purpose&period; Marijuana is used very frequently by people nowadays&period; It releases pressure and makes you feel good for a period of time&period; With the millennial generation romanticizing sadness and depression and listening to music where the singers are openly using it&comma; marijuana has become more popular than ever&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify">Pregnancy is a very delicate time for the mother&period; What a mother eats&comma; puts on her body and smokes affects the child&period; Marijuana is that one substance that can have a terrible impact on a little baby&&num;8217&semi;s health&comma; even before he is born<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify"><em>What exactly is Marijuana&quest;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify">Marijuana &lpar;also known as weed&comma; pot&comma; bud&rpar; comes from the Cannabis sativa plant&period; It is it&&num;8217&semi;s dried portion and usually crushed before smoking or eating it&period; The effects it has on the body are many&period; It can cause relaxation&comma; euphoria and very enhanced sensory organs facilitation&period; In almost all states recreational marijuana is illegal&period; However&comma; Canada has recently legalized its use&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Marijuana has an active compound known as THC&period; &lpar;Delta 9 tetrahydrocannabinol&rpar;&period; This substance is extremely dangerous and can cross the placenta of a mother to get to the baby during the pregnancy&period;This makes the use of <strong>marijuana pregnancy and breastfeeding<&sol;strong><strong>&comma; <&sol;strong>extremely risky&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify">Smoking or eating marijuana during pregnancy is a very dicey subject because its effects during pregnancy are very difficult to determine&period; This is because many women who consume  marijuana during pregnancy&comma; also use substances like tobacco&comma; alcohol and other drugs&period; This makes it difficult to understand&comma; what exactly is causing the problem&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>How high is the use of marijuana during pregnancy&quest; <&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify">There have been many studies done on this&comma; but the results vary&period; However&comma; something that has been established is the fact that Marijuana is the most used illicit drug when a woman is pregnant&period; According to a group&comma; 2 to 4&period;5 percent of women use weed during their pregnancy&period; Empowerment comes with a cost&period; Young and urban women&comma; along with socioeconomically disabled women have reported high rates of marijuana consumption&period; Upto 28 percent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify"><em>Potential hazards on a baby after birth<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<ol style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify">&NewLine;<li>When a foetus is exposed to THC&comma; it can severely impact it&&num;8217&semi;s brain development&period; It can kill off brain cells before  they even develop&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>There is an ongoing research that says that women who smoke marijuana can give birth to long problems in their babies&period; School performance of the child can be severely affected and he will possibly have trouble with concepts such as attention&comma; memory&comma; impulse control and school performance<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ol>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify"><em>Strong misconceptions<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify">There is growing popularity around vape pens&period; A lot of people hold this misconception that vaping is better than smoking marijuana and is also harmless because you don&&num;8217&semi;t inhale  anything except water vapour&comma; which replaces smoke&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;However&comma; this is a big myth&period; Both vaping and  <strong>marijuana use during pregnancy and breastfeeding <&sol;strong>harm the baby in the worst possible way&period; There is no evidence to say that it&&num;8217&semi;s safe&period; Therefore it isn&&num;8217&semi;t even worthy of  the risk&period;&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify">&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify">&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify">&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify">&NewLine;

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