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Your Definitive Answer to Cannabis Use During Pregnancy

A recent study was released on the relationship between cannabis use and pregnancy, drawing a data pool from the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand. by Anthony Tyler Unfortunately, for those hoping to gain a deeper, unbiased insight into this plant’s historical use as a pregnancy-symptom treatment, this “scientific” study is the wrong place. The researchers conducting the study went on record with statements like: “Anecdotally, we know that some women are using marijuana to reduce nausea in pregnancy, even though there is no medical evidence to support this. Our study was unable to determine whether there is a ‘safe’ time prior to 20 weeks’ gestation to give up marijuana. Therefore, we recommend total abstinence from marijuana during pregnancy.” This is such a convoluted, factually untrue […] Read More

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Meditation in Pregnancy

Meditation in pregnancy seems like and odd activity to indulge in especially in this time and age where life is moving very fast .Whereas the issues of life must go on, it’s important as a pregnant woman to retreat and think about the wonderful creation you are carrying from within and yearn to offer it much deserved attention that accords to it. You may think it’s odd to set some time, maybe looking for a meditation instructor to engage you  in meditation skills while you are pregnant but studies have shown that Advantages of meditation in pregnancy are transmitted from the mother to the child in the womb and the benefits may be Biological or psychological . Advantages of Meditation in Pregnancy Biological Advantages Enhances […] Read More

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You Can Have Your Kids Taken Away for Smoking Legal Pot

Marijuana may be legal in Colorado, yet harsh drug war laws still penalize society’s most marginalized women. The following story first appeared on RH Reality Check.  It is no secret that marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington ushered in internationally unprecedented progressive drug policy in the United States. What is lesser understood, however, is that these new “experimental” reforms do not necessarily peel back all of the many, punitive layers of drug war enforcement. Despite the prevailing notion that the consequences of marijuana prohibition are determined in criminal courts for crimes like possession and sale, some of the harshest punishments are steeped in ever-complicated family law and Child Protective Services (CPS). Well-intentioned marijuana policy reform thus often leaves women, who are more likely to be […] Read More

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It’s Official: Tennessee Becomes First State to Jail Women for Pregnancy Outcomes

Against the advice of doctors, addiction specialists and reproductive health groups, Gov. Haslam signs the bill anyway Tennessee has become the first state in the nation to pass a law criminalizing women for their pregnancy outcomes. Republican Gov. Bill Haslam took the 10 days allotted to him to consider the advice of doctors, addiction experts and reproductive health groups urging him to veto the punitive and dangerous measure that allows prosecutors to charge a woman with criminal assault if she uses illegal drugs during her pregnancy and her fetus or newborn is considered harmed as a result. Haslam ignored these recommendations — and the recommendations of nearly every major medical association, including the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy  — and signed the […] Read More