https://www.medicalmarijuana.com/is-marijuana-safe-during-pregnancy/ Nausea. Anxiety. Pain. These symptoms are part of most women’s pregnancies, often defining them for the entire nine months

1. Is Marijuana Safe During Pregnancy?
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2. Introduction
Nausea. Anxiety. Pain.
These symptoms are part of most women’s
pregnancies, often defining them for the entire
nine months.

3. Introduction
Since marijuana can help these symptoms, and is
now legal in several states, pregnant women are
starting to beg the question: Could marijuana be
medically useful for the nausea, the anxiety, and
the pain?
But if so, would it be dangerous for my baby?
For discussion purposes, we will look at two
reports.

4. Report 1
December 2015 abstract from the NIH’s
PubMed.gov (under the auspices of the national
biotech research center) says don’t even go
there.
Evidence is lacking to prove marijuana is safe
during pregnancy, and all the more so, past
studies indicate that marijuana could be
dangerous for the fetus.

5. Report 1
Complications center around “problems with
neurological development, resulting in
hyperactivity, poor cognitive function, and
changes in dopaminergic receptors,” the report
says.

6. Report 2
A report by labor support doula Pamela McColl
in the homebirth midwifery Birth Institute
reviewed several studies dating between 1975
and 2011, and concluded similarly to the
PubMed.gov abstract, stating outright,
“Marijuana use during pregnancy interrupts fetal
brain development.”

7. Study Conclusions
While both of these reports conclude that
pregnant women should not use marijuana,
neither of them can say that it is 100%
dangerous.
The PubMed.gov report admits that studies have
not been comprehensive, and the studies cited
by McCall are older and do not all examine
cannabis usage during pregnancy per se.

8. More Questions Remain
All things considered, perhaps pregnant women
are missing out if marijuana could be deemed
safe, in quantity and quality, for them and their
babies.

9. Fiora Relief
As a related matter on the feminine front, a
recently-released cannabis product called Fiora
Relief garnered viral attention for its cures for
premenstrual and menstrual cramps.
Stick the cannabis suppository up the vagina,
and voila, those wrenchingly-heavy, stop-you-in-
your-tracks uterine pangs and lower back aches
are gone.

10. A Possible Solution?
Wait a minute. Menstrual cramps are mini
uterine contractions. So could this solution do
the trick for the really heavy labor contractions?
After all, it can also be inserted rectally.

11. A Possible Solution?
At this point it’s unlikely anyone in the
conventional medical community will suggest
this because the effects of a cannabis
suppository, even rectally, might risk the baby
getting high and affecting the heart rate.

12. A Possible Solution?
Another question is whether cannabis for pain
relief would be any safer than other medical pain
relief, such as epidurals, which can also affect
heart rate.
We do not mean to imply the safety of either
option, rather to raise the question of statistical
probability of risks when comparing marijuana
usage to accepted modern medicine norms

13. No For Now
All told, to date, the safety of marijuana usage in
pregnancy is toggling the line of opening up a
can of worms.
Like many pregnancy safety questions,
researchers and doctors understandably are
leery of giving a definitive answer because
there’s a developing baby involved.

14. No For Now
Like the blanket US medical stance on alcohol
consumption during pregnancy?—?is “since we
can’t know, the answer is no.”
In other words, the better-safe-than-sorry
approach is the official medical word.

15. No For Now
Pregnant women are advised against using
marijuana routinely during pregnancy, legalities
notwithstanding.
What people try on their own has been, and
remains, another story.

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