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Prenatal cannabis exposure associated with mental disorders in children

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Re: Prenatal cannabis exposure associated with mental disorders in children

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Post by scythe »

darth_avocado wrote: post #12

I’m glad this research is being done. I don’t use cannabis, but I also don’t frown upon it. However some of the conversations on the use of cannabis recently have changed from “it’s a drug, but it isn’t that bad” to “it is completely harmless”. Which in my opinion is very dangerous and could harm entire populations before we have enough research. In my opinion, it should be considered similar category as alcohol, cig…

The primary positive effect of cannabis in the general population is probably that it tends to interfere with alcohol consumption, due to excessive sedation. This probably explains the lack of negative population-level effects of cannabis legalization. The most concerning effect of cannabis is its tendency to increase heart rate.

Quite a bit of research is available on the effects of cannabis use — the problem is that people don't read it.

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Post by mc32 »

tedivm wrote: post #9

The amount of research over last decade has been huge, even outside of this. It used to be the only way companies could research cannabis was by getting really crappy samples from a government grow house, but with legalization the supply of research samples and the quality of researchers willing to work on it has grown considerably. This is a direct safety issue. I used to moderator one of the bigger cannabis subredd…

I wonder if it has impact on sperm integrity and therefore men who are reproducing should abstain for some time prior to inseminating.

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Post by hollywood_court »

darth_avocado wrote: post #12

I’m glad this research is being done. I don’t use cannabis, but I also don’t frown upon it. However some of the conversations on the use of cannabis recently have changed from “it’s a drug, but it isn’t that bad” to “it is completely harmless”. Which in my opinion is very dangerous and could harm entire populations before we have enough research. In my opinion, it should be considered similar category as alcohol, cig…

I agreed with all of that except for fat. You need fat. You don’t need any of the others.

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Post by pier25 »

asveikau wrote: post #36
1-6 wrote: post #4

Why are pregnant women smoking weed to begin with?

I think it's more addictive than people think. I've known a few people who I think have a problem, but they become violently confrontational if you say it might be addictive for some . I may get comments and downvotes along these lines. I guess some people may also have some exposure from before they realize they're pregnant. That probably also happens with things like alcohol. I think I've heard some say that's not…

When someone mentions addiction people think heroin addiction, but yeah people can become psychologically dependent on cannabis too. I know I did, many years ago.

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Post by asveikau »

Maursault wrote: post #26
1-6 wrote: post #4

Why are pregnant women smoking weed to begin with?

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https://www.google.com/search?q=cannabis+psychosis

People are not making this up. It's a risk that needs to be weighed.

Acknowledging this fact is not the same as being in favor of prohibition or criminalization or saying it'll happen to everyone.

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Post by dekken_ »

endisneigh wrote: post #16

Weed is bad for you, what a shocker. Like all drugs you have to weigh the positive effects with the negative. Generally it's bad to do most rec drugs if pregnant or around kids.

Water is bad for you in sufficient quantities.

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Post by Bud »

Godel_unicode wrote: post #40
avgcorrection wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fat is an essential macronutrient.

Fat includes transfat. This back-and-forth does an excellent job of underlining GPs point about those being complex subjects that require study and nuanced explanation.

It's not that complex, actually. The vast majority of fats, all the natural ones, basically, are fine. Healthy, even. The weirdass plastic fats created by injecting hydrogen into vegetable oil are not fine.

Done! Was that really so nuanced? No. It was not.

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Post by diab0lic »

Maursault wrote: post #26
1-6 wrote: post #4

Why are pregnant women smoking weed to begin with?

Quoted post unavailable.

Alcohol has been in use for ~7000 years yet society only began broadly recognizing it as harmful during pregnancy in the 1970s. [0] I don’t think the form of your argument holds any weight. Would you make the same claim regarding the use of alcohol during pregnancy?

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26137906/

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Post by irrational »

darth_avocado wrote: post #12

I’m glad this research is being done. I don’t use cannabis, but I also don’t frown upon it. However some of the conversations on the use of cannabis recently have changed from “it’s a drug, but it isn’t that bad” to “it is completely harmless”. Which in my opinion is very dangerous and could harm entire populations before we have enough research. In my opinion, it should be considered similar category as alcohol, cig…

It’s still a DUI if you drive on it. The week after it was legalized in my state, a person managed to put their car through the second story of a home. The toxicology report showed the only thing in their system was cannabis.
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