Medical research has confirmed that the body’s endocannabinoid system is a finely regulated and highly complex system which is involved in the detailed regulation of essentially all body systems including the brain and cardiovascular systems and stem cell niches.
Studies have shown that the rate of use of cannabis by expecting mothers closely parallels that in the wider community. In fact given the long half-life of cannabis in tissues even were a maternal habitual smoker to stop when she discovered her pregnancy, her infant would continue to be exposed to her on-board cannabinoid load for several months afterwards during critical periods of organogenesis. And other studies show that the father’s cannabis use is even more damaging than the mothers’ 2.
Whilst much research has focussed on the effects of endocannabinoids in the adult brain relatively little research has looked at the impact of these same effects in the developing brain of the foetus and neonate.
That’s not a bug. It’s a feature.

Wasn’t it “Brave New World” where they purposefully dosed the Gamma babies to make them simple and retarded workers?
I believe they were called Epsilons.
The medical marijuana jockeys are selling weed to pregnant women to alleviate the effects of nausea.
It’s wonderful medicine you know.
12 FUCKING pages of CAPTCHA WTF is going on. Sell this system to the CIA!
So it looks like cannabis use by Margaret explains Justin!
Now we know.
No doubt.
See? Smoke dope while pregnant and your kid might grow up to be Prime Minister!
I get two pages of captcha at the most.
“It is no accident that in almost the same week both Australia and UK have decided that cannabis is to be recommended for a host of medical disorders mostly in advance of gold standard clinical trials. This is a direct product of the organized transnational global drug liberalization movement orchestrated from New York.”
Specifically by—wait for it—George Soros and his Open Society Foundation.
Ironically, the 1st reference on the pot causes birth defects report is :
1. Open Society Foundations. Open Society Foundations New York: Open Society Foundations; 2018 [cited 2018 4th August 2018]. Available from: https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/ accessed 4th August 2018 2018.
Hell yeah. We’re winning and that doesn’t look set to change.
Says everything about you that you look at the legalization of a drug that causes birth defects as “ a win “. Who cares about others, so long as you get your weed?
“WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!”
Better enjoy it while you can, stoner, because when the backlash comes, it will hit you so hard that you won’t know what hit you.
Funny how your beloved Chicoms have the death penalty for drug trafficking. Doesn’t sound very “libertarian” to me…
” when the backlash comes”
LOL right after the backlash to gay marriage comes ie never.
It will come, whether you like it or not.
Ah, but sooner or later that natural selection thingy’ll kick in, no how many pronoun kops and gender-menders are on the job. Nature red in tooth & claw, and all that stuff…
Any frequent pot user recognizes that the use of the drug makes you lazy and stupid.
In a peaceful and prosperous social setting, these characteristics may not interfere with a happy life. They may, in fact, contribute to its enjoyment.
Should society suddenly become less peaceful and/or less prosperous, however,being lazy and stupid could easily prove to be a serious disadvantage.
How does the future look to you?
So, George Soros is selling it with the evil intent of destroying the west. A stoned west will see no need for defending itself from its enemies. They all just become mindless cogs in the globalist machine after Soros destroys the US, the one nation indispensable to the protection of the west. He is evil. It is not too late to convict him on Nazi war crime charges for his forays as a Nazi bagman in Hungary.
” It is not too late to convict him on Nazi war crime charges for his forays as a Nazi bagman in Hungary.”
Since those are lies you are in fact never getting a prosecution.
Unfortunately for you, he admitted it in a 60 minutes interview.
Please stop lying.
Unme sez: Please stop lying.
Translation: Please stop telling the truth
I agree that it makes you lazy. But I am also quite sure the stupidity does NOT come from the plant. That is the direct result of public schools and the Unionist teachers.
The two treatments are used in conjunction to create a nation of Eloi that are also programmed to dumbly work as Morlocks. H.G. Wells just had his cloning results a little mixed up.
Yes
what a great society we are heading for. stoned and stupid and those we are importing have IQs around 80. I doubt we will be able to field a squad of streets sweepers in the future. don’t worry about medical care because there won’t be anyone around bright enough to set a broken bone. I don’t know if welfare cheques will be available but heh, anything could be possible.
Old white guy, my doppelganger, there will be no welfare cheque for you. The answer as to why, your moniker says it all.
You will be the first on the train to the camps.
I can be quite nasty and do not mind inflicting pain on someone who thinks I am less than competent.
Soros’ ideal futuristic society.
Justin is obviously a victim of fetal cannabis syndrome, but it manifests in him more like the crack baby’s of the 80’s.
Beyond Cannabis, was Margret also a coke-head, or was it something else?
More like a Stones cockhead.
Someone who is less of a gentleman than I might speculate that she gave a lot of coke-head.
Pity she didn’t that one night with Fidel…
The Ledain commission told us back in the 60’s that males would grow tits if you smoked marijuana. We got high but never got our tits.
Just self declare and the left will buy you new tits
We elected them to high office instead.
No substance in recent memory has been brought to market as a prescription medication with less testing than marijuana. There have been few, and in some applications, no randomized controlled trials to assess its efficacy or safety. The dosing and pharmacokinetics are vaguely understood if at all, and long term study of side effects is lacking. Its use as a therapy is an example of the new political pseudo science in which political agitation replaces the scientific method in directing care. If an adult chooses to use it as a recreational substance, it’s their choice. But in doing so they should be aware of what is, and as importantly what isn’t known about its long term neurochemical and neurophysiological effects.
It is absolutely true that no research has been done on pregnancy and cannabis. There could very well be effects on development we don’t know about.
However, as usual the case is -far- overstated by BMJ. Against their alarmism, let’s take a nice calming look at history. Cannabis and its various derivative oils etc. have been around for tens of thousands of years. It has seen widespread use as a pain killer and anti-nausea med since -before- the wheel was invented in ancient Sumeria. There is archaeological evidence that the Neanderthals used it.
So if the danger is so terrible, why aren’t we all dead? And the hippies had kids, without a huge surge of birth defects hitting the population. So there’s that too.
Let us not forget that the BMJ is the same rag that’s been the source of an awful lot of really bad anti-gun propaganda, using the same technique shown here in this article.
So, if you think you want to have a baby, lay off the weed. And the booze, and the other recreational sh1t. Obviously. Other than that, don’t panic. The testing has already been done by countless Boomers. They didn’t die, or go crazy, so you’ll probably be okay.
Yes, the message should be clear by now – don’t drink, smoke or do drugs if you’re pregnant or trying to get pregnant. Most women I know are careful about everything they eat, drink and are exposed to in the environment when they are pregnant. It got me out of cat litter duty due to the risk of toxoplasmosis. No one talks about banning booze, prescription drugs, OTC drugs or cats, though.
Research into the good, the bad and the ugly effects of pot should continue so people can make informed decisions about what they’re putting into their body. Prohibition isn’t the answer.
Beyond Boomers, Hippies and GenX, who have not had severe problems with pot use and pregnancy, what about the Netherlands? They decriminalized pot use ages ago. Is their rate of birth defects higher than neighboring countries? Is there factors that effect the risks, like doing pot and other street drugs?
First comment on this subject that doesnt SMACK of Reefer madness. Jesus you guys….ya wanna RAIL against something..??
Have a good FKN look at what Fentanyl and Cartenafil are doing..hmm.??
That Kiddies, coupled with “safe injection sites” is Legalized Fkn MURDER and there is absolutely SFA being done to adresss THAT.
Piss off with all your sanctimonious BS re Pot use. The one and ONLY Reason shithead in the PMO legalized it was for more $$$$ for his various Social Justice crusades…along with Dictatorial Control.
Looking for a base reason for Millenial idiodcy..? look no further than your local Communist Indoctrination Centre – AKA Public Education.
Oh wow a sane comment. Actually shocking.
The dangers of almost all drugs has been wildly exaggerated/overstated, from MDMA to cocaine.
Typical Lefty troll.
“The dangers of almost all drugs has been wildly exaggerated/overstated, from MDMA to cocaine.”
No dude. The dangers of -some- drugs has been overstated. I’d go so far as to say poppies aren’t as bad as the Reefer Maddness types like to pretend, they’ve been in used as medicinals for as long as cannabis. Its when you get away from the plant and start distilling things that you get in trouble.
But this other sh!t? It’ll kill you quick as a wink, and if you don’t die you get brain damage. Half the stuff being sold on the illegal market right now, nobody even knows what it is. There’s stuff that makes people rip all their clothes off before they collapse from central nervous system shutdown, there’s another one out there that makes them bleed from the eyes and ears. Then there’s the zombie drugs, those are the ones where the user is busy trying to eat another person.
Government is not the only bunch who doesn’t care if you live or die. You should try using what’s left of your brain before you take something you’ll regret.
MDMA has been demonstrated to be pretty much harmless if taken recreation-ally. Few people who do cocaine get addicted. I said ‘almost’ because there is some really weird nasty sh*t out there.
Meth has also been exaggerated: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2014/02/20/hyperbole-hurts-the-surprising-truth-about-methamphetamine/#582a10f829f1
It is not like cyanide, with fast-acting effect. We in fact have no data on the hippies or the ancients- but we do know there has been an explosion in autism. Your claim is a hypothesis, with no proof available. We do know it has not been studied in anything like rigorous large-scale trials to see how profound the teratogenic effects are. They have been observed on the cellular level, and in various organs and systems of the human body. It would be criminally irresponsible for any person who intends to have children to use it. And based on what we know, right now, it should never be sold over the counter, nor used by any but but an incredibly small number of people. It is unethical to prescribe harmful drugs, and making it freely available will be just that.
“we do know there has been an explosion in autism. Your claim is a hypothesis, with no proof available.”
The irony….
” based on what we know, right now, it should never be sold over the counter”
FO slaver. I’ll buy what I want.
“FO slaver. I’ll buy what I want.”
Then stop whining and go visit your nearest ghetto dope slinger.
“Your claim is a hypothesis, with no proof available.”
No, my claim is that we observed no huge increases in birth defects and other social issues when the Boomers were all smoking weed in the 1960s and 1970’s. We know that they did smoke a bunch of weed, and we know that they had kids who turned out okay and had kids of their own, so there’s your proof.
Millions of people smoked before and during pregnancy. If cannabis had serious effects on fetal development, we would know. It would be obvious.
Compare and contrast with fetal alcohol syndrome.
“And the hippies had kids, without a huge surge of birth defects hitting the population”
I’ll take exception to that comment, we have Liberals everywhere today and the Hippies to thank for it. That’s a pretty huge mental defect that can’t be ignored right there.
Paul. Once again, that mental defect is caused by government-run education systems and their public school indoctrination centres. They are fully uninformed by the time they ever smoke a joint.
Public schools are child abuse.
The ‘explosion’ in Autism in Colorado began in 2001. They didn’t legalize recreational weed until 2012. There may well be an environmental cause (or a ‘new diagnosis’ uptick, which the medical profession strongly denies), but it’s hard to see a causal relationship between autism and marijuana consumption.
Bullshit. The majority of us that can be called Boomers were NOT Hippies or even close to being such. Yet many of us smoked a joint every now and then, went to college, got educated, got maried, had kids that came into the world with zero issues and that are from what I can see doing quite well.
Mine are 25 & 27 – both College educated and both working.
Public Education K-12 has really only taken the BIG Dive into Marxist Indoctrination in the past 15 years…whereas UNIVERSITY..?? that’s been germinating for a few of decades.
Yea that’s great, but you’ll never know what they could have been………….
Your personal experience, with all due respect, is far too small a sample to make any inferences from.
And it does not answer the question, what would your, and your children’s long term health, and IQ be without usage?
Okay don’t do drugs when pregnant. Also: always abort if you weren’t trying for one.
There. Problem solved.
We’ve won. You best stop crying for your own sakes. We’re also going to get all the other drugs legalized. All of them.
Heh, the residential SDA crack-head as always makes the best case for “Don’t do drugs kids”.
Problem solved, indeed.
“Okay don’t do drugs when pregnant. Also: always abort if you weren’t trying for one”
Don’t tell me what to do with my body you misogynist pig!
I’ve seen much worse misogyny at SDA. I’ve been called a c**t a few times by regulars in the past, mostly by extreme religious types.
I think Unme just dislikes children. Unme is not alone, of course, but from an evolutionary perspective anti-natalism is an odd thing. Not surprisingly this trait is efficiently diluted and/or removed from the gene pool now that effective birth control is available…because people who dislike children either don’t have children at all or have only one. Personal choice is a good thing.
Babies are adorable even if they’re not cute. I personally can’t imagine looking at a baby and not smiling.
“I think Unme just dislikes children. ”
Points to you! You nailed it. I’d rather get cancer than children.
“I’d rather get cancer than children.”
We’re all in agreement here, you definitely should get the first and not the second. Fortunately there is no need to worry about the second.
You should look into some counseling for that problem, boi.
“I think Unme just dislikes children. ”
Children tend to come as result of sex, … he is still stuck on step one and his back hole burns.
“his back hole burns”
Not anymore it’s been months since I ate Mexican.
Didn’t know they were so well endowed. I bow to your expertise.
Obviously didn’t READ the article which cited the persistence of cananiboids in the female system long after cessation of use … or that the cananiboids in the males system is even MORE damaging to the developing fetus. Reading comprehension … not a strong suit of the dope smoking left.
I think the obvious parallel is alarmist climate science. It is likely there are good and bad effects of pot (or CO2) but research that is overly alarmist should be handled with caution. Activist scientists are a dime a dozen. If the research also confirms your political biases then you should further increase your skepticism because people don’t thoroughly vet research that agrees with their ideology.
Okay. Then cease drugs long before trying.
“cananiboids in the males system is even MORE damaging to the developing fetus. ”
How the af does that even work?
Oh you guys want legal MJ to ruin society SO BAD just like you want immigration to ruin society SO BAD and wanted gay marriage to ruin society SO BAD. Sad 4 u it’s not happening.
*sigh* … I shall refer to the name of my HS Rock Band … “damaged sperm”
Don’t worry about gay marriage. The way you freaks like importing muslims, it will be outlawed by them.
I love multiculturalism because it is such a poison pill to “progressive” tenets like your beloved gay marriage and troon rights.
Chairman Mao’s policy towards drugs: A place in the Lao Gai for every junkie and a bullet in the head for every drug dealer. There is little evidence that has changed.
Doesn’t sound very libertarian to me…
Justin Trudeau is the poster child against doing drugs while pregnant.
Why is UnMe still here? Did anyone invite him?
Just one of those retarded quasi-libertarians who likes illegal drugs, thinks China is a libertarian paradise, thinks allowing hordes of barbarians into a country will “improve” it, and supports failed leaders like Macron, who are wildly unpopular and largely finished.
In short, another idiot who is disconnected from reality. Would not last five seconds in a revolution, as he would be in the crosshairs of both sides.
Yeah, it’s the people who think Trump is wildly popular who’ve got that reality connection down pat.
I can tell who is winning, and it ain’t Macron.
It sure ain’t Trump either. Your diversion wasn’t even a good one.
“Why is UnMe still here? Did anyone invite him?”
He is the resident dignleberry.
UCS Panther, Colonialista, could we be looking at another poster child against drugs or mad at dad?
I always thought he was a poster child for the Ocular Penetration Prevention Act NSFW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btw1eh4mitQ
Eeewwww ….
I did say NSFW, didn’t I? But you just had to click. You’re welcome. Tell me it does not explain UnMedicated perfectly?
People have been safely using this substance for … ever and we’re still looking for “reefer madness”? We’ll find it yet!!!
A friend of mine has chronic pain. He was on an opioid pain killer for a while then his doctor switched him to marijuana derivative . He liked the opioid because it killed the pain. The marijuana derivative doesn’t do a thing about the pain it just makes him not care about it.
Cannabis and chlonidine. The combination of these two drugs is the best treatment for opioid withdrawal I have found. You have to get the chlonidine from a doctor. It is no fun, but neither is being a junkie.
Ahhh! So THAT’s why Turdeau Jr is ret… umm, I mean, intellectually under-equipped…!
So THAT explains Trudeau. He is either the first fetal alcohol G7 leader, or the first fetal cannabinoid G7 leader. Heck, maybe fetal alcohol cannabinoid syndrome FACS G7 leader. Great social justice job there Canada.
Cannabis Fetal Syndrome a new fact of life.
Thank you, Steakman and LC Bennet.
The thing about weed is that humans have been using it probably longer than we’ve had -beer-, and that is a long fricking time. Compared to weed, distilled liquor is extremely recent, 14th Century in Europe. 16th Century before it was cheap enough for the lower classes to drink.
You can tell that liquor is a new problem, because our culture still hasn’t adapted to handle it. Similarly opium in distilled forms is fairly new, and we have problems with that too. In the 19th Century virtually all of China was addicted to opium, but poppy seeds are found at Neanderthal archaeology sites. What changed was the purification of the drug. These days we have the “Opiate Crisis”, which authorities are still trying to pretend is based on stolen Oxycontin pills. Much more likely it is fentanyl and carfentanyl, from foreign sources. There’s enough bang in 100 pounds of carfentanyl to -kill- the population Ontario, never mind get them all high.
One of the things worth worrying about is that some guy is going to identify and mass-produce the exact thing in cannabis that gets you high. There are presently circulating in the black market over 100 synthetic THC analogs, which bind to the canabinoid receptors in the brain -far- more strongly than naturally occurring THC from the cannabis plant. These chemicals are to cannabis what fentanyl and carfentanyl are to the poppy plant. And they are fantastically dangerous, as they’ve never been tested on animals for effect. Straight to human testing, thank you criminal element.
I think, in all honesty, that the entire business of cannabis has revealed the evil side of government a lot more than any other issue in the last 200 years. We are getting hit coming and going here. Back in the Reefer Madness days of the early 20th Century, the citizens of Western nations were deliberately denied safe, efficacious medicines by wild-eyed Reformers. In other words, SJWs who used a medicinal plant to climb to power and stay there, with bully tactics and propaganda. Otherwise know as the Moral Hygiene Movement.
Now we have SJWs using the same plant to do the same thing, but this time by introducing it back into society using bully tactics and propaganda. AKA the Liberals and socialists generally.
In BOTH cases the government has no interest whatsoever in the welfare of the public. Back then is was all down to increasing taxes and increasing budgets, and now it is the same thing. If anything Turdeau is worse, making government into your dope connection to get more tax money. They’re literally selling weed to support their socialism habit.
None of that has anything to do with the medical benefits or potentially harmful side effects of the cannabis plant, in all its varieties. Over 100 canabinoids besides the main THC and CBD, all kinds of turpeins and flavinoids that modify the effects on the human body, sometimes in a very obvious and marked fashion. Medical science hasn’t even scratched the surface of what’s in the plant, or how it all works. Thanks to history, we do know that it won’t kill the next generation in the womb the way opiates and alcohol will, but beyond that rather sweeping generalization the details are vague.
And given that there’s very little known, isn’t it interesting that there’s no big money push for basic research from the Liberal government? Almost as if they didn’t give a good G*dd*mn what happens.
Or they don’t want the research, because they know that the toxicity of this illegal drug that they just legalized would be revealed to the general public on a large scale. Doping the population has been a long-term goal of the new left for 50 years. Once the electorate learned that it is a cause of birth defects that would be the end of the project. And people just might start figuring out what hard and cruel people make up the LPC . No, it’s much better in Librano eyes to just let the damage be done so that the LPC can profit from it politically among the young and ignorant dopesters, and let everyone else believe that they just legalized it to help sufferers of chronic pain. What do they care?
” Once the electorate learned that it is a cause of birth defects that would be the end of the project. ”
Yeah, just like they’re clamoring to ban alcohol.
Get it through your head: you lost, we won. It’s over. It’s spreading too-the whole world is coming up for legalization. There’s no stopping this.
QED
mmmm okay, what would YOU do for Jayden?
what did mary jane do for Jayden?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyheU376Akw
seriously, wtf, you are ALL talking about side effects.
well ferfuckssake, *show me a drug lacking side effects and I will show you a glass of water*.
ALL drugs have side effects. why why why does this pandemic stigma attach to pot?
*because the goddamn ‘mercun prison guard fcukin lobby want to make sure their ‘workplace’ is JAM PACKED.
aka ‘zhob security’ THAT’S why.
suggestion: keep it the hell away from where it doesnt belong !!
but the LIEberals fcuked *that* up severely as they are wont to do, but why why why does the hard right then demand to put it all back into the era of ‘reefer madness’ hysteria? (because propaganda works far better than difficult complex truth)
hypocrisy test: feel free to weigh in any time one of YOUR loved ones experiences the same hell as Jayden.