TORONTO -- Cannabis use during pregnancy has become increasingly common over the past two decades, but a study published Monday suggests that those children showed higher levels of a stress hormone, and greater anxiety, aggression, and hyperactivity.
“Pregnant women are being bombarded with misinformation that cannabis is of no risk, while the reality is that cannabis is more potent today than it was even a few years ago. Our findings indicate that using it during pregnancy can have long-term impact on children,” said Yasmin Hurd, Director of the Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai, and senior author of the paper, in a statement.
Researchers measured hair hormone levels, heart rate variability (HRV) at rest and during auditory startle -- a test of an unconditional reflex caused by an unexpected loud sound -- of the children and looked at their neurobehavioral traits as measured on the Behavioral Assessment System for Children survey.
The placenta of some of the children with behavioural assessments were processed for RNA sequencing, with scientists finding that cannabis use during pregnancy was associated with lower expression of immune-activating genes, including proinflammatory cytokines and immune cell–type markers which help protect against pathogens.
Is this really surprising Thu? Any substance would have an effect
Cannabis can also trigger psychosis in those vulnerable to this. According to some psychiatrists, it may be because the levels of THC are significantly higher these days than the 60’s.
Truth is about 30% of people walking around today had a mother that smoked. They all doing fine. 'real life tests'
PSA: You can show pregnant women without them holding their bellies - the photo-cliche of the century.
On tomorrow's headline... Cocaine and heroin isn't good either.
No shit ? Really ? Wtf did you expect !
must be a slow day in The Newsroom
That's all true. Not good, meth alcohol and others are as bad, even worse. This is the biggest threat we face, a generation of kids that are chemically a mess and burn down society because they can't function on any level. Plus, disease will attack these cohorts more effectively.
I would have thought that not smoking pot, cigarettes or drinking alcohol when pregnant was a given!? Even a million years ago, in the 1970's, when I was born, mothers were told not to drink or smoke too much lol
Also sudden urges for Doritos.
They don’t call it dope because it makes you smart!
This explains A LOT!
No shit, you don't say.
But let’s make it more accessible. 🙄
No shit Sherlock! What about babies and children inhaling second hand smoke from pot? You should not be able to smoke it in public. It should have been legalized like alcohol. My grandson was exposed to the fumes at the zoo in Hyde Park Zoo. That’s disgusting! Second hand smoke
Reading or listening to the news at any point proven to cause stress, anxiety, depression, foreboding, doom and gloom.
Then don't use it when pregnant. Just like tobacco, alcohol and a myriad of other substances.
But they told me it cured cancer?!?!
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