Marijuana is more effective and less dangerous than other antinausea drugs for pregnancy they have also found?!
Question: It can slow the growth of cancer tumors, in the patients taking it for nausea. It has also been proven there are no ill effects from marijuana, it does not cause birth defects, or harm the fetus in any way. It is also not physically addicting. So how do we go about getting it re-classified as an herbal remedy, rather than equate it with dangerous drugs like crack and heroin? They have also proven it is not the Gateway drug, they claim it to be, it is simply the "forbidden fruit", which makes it just as appealing as alcohol, which is also a "forbidden fruit."
It is a natural plant that grows out of the earth, and has many medicinal properties that they are only just discovering.
I say is time to re-classify it, and make it legal, by making it an herbal remedy, for many ailments, such as intractible nausea during pregnancy, pain, nausea when recieving cancer treatments, etc...
What do you think? Serious answers only, I don't need all the "Refer Madness" mentality, crap.
Answers: It can slow the growth of cancer tumors, in the patients taking it for nausea. It has also been proven there are no ill effects from marijuana, it does not cause birth defects, or harm the fetus in any way. It is also not physically addicting. So how do we go about getting it re-classified as an herbal remedy, rather than equate it with dangerous drugs like crack and heroin? They have also proven it is not the Gateway drug, they claim it to be, it is simply the "forbidden fruit", which makes it just as appealing as alcohol, which is also a "forbidden fruit."
It is a natural plant that grows out of the earth, and has many medicinal properties that they are only just discovering.
I say is time to re-classify it, and make it legal, by making it an herbal remedy, for many ailments, such as intractible nausea during pregnancy, pain, nausea when recieving cancer treatments, etc...
What do you think? Serious answers only, I don't need all the "Refer Madness" mentality, crap.
Goonhilda:
just did a little "research" myself. I googled "marijuana pregnancy" and came up with the following query page.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mar...
noticed you copied & pasted the second available link. it quotes absolutely 0 sources. and contains such intelligent sentences (?) as "Pregnancy. Marijuana. Bad."
http://www.estronaut.com/a/pregnancy_wit...
the third available link however, quotes a good 39 sources, and suprise suprise, the final sentence of the VERY long and well-written, well educated and non-sensationalist article says "the weight of current scientific evidence suggests that marijuana does not directly harm the human fetus."
don't believe me, see for yourself:
http://www.mothering.com/articles/pregna...
i might have maybe taken your big old long tirade seriously if you had some good sources to back you up...
but anyways.
YES I feel marijuana should be reclassified as an "herbal supplement" just like St Johns Wort, Red Raspberry leaf, black & blue cohosh, etc etc. All of these are "safe" when used properly, and like any "pharmaceutical" have the potential to be dangerous if used incorrectly or if over-used.
Too many folks have indeed fallen prey to the reefer madness mentality... but only proper education of the use of these herbs will make people realise that this silly modern-day Prohibition is a scam to make money off of a natural substance & the people who use it. But no one wants to bother educating themselves, especially not when someone else "more informed" is happy to do that thinking for them and say "NO that's bad, here take this pill instead."
As for its use during pregnancy. I found small doses to be incredibly theraputic for 2 pregnancies thus far. One resulted in a full-term birth of a perfectly healthy baby boy (7 lbs 15 oz, 19 inches so low birthweight my ***), the other is yet a work in progress. And NO I am not at all concerned that there is any inherent "danger" to this use of marijuana for morning sickness.
I am however, terrified to put any pharmaceutical concoctions in my body and my baby's body. These things have only been around for a few decades at best, and they are still "working out the glitches" so to speak. Personally I don't want to be the guinea pig, the one they go "whoops!! RECALL!!" on... AFTER the damage has been done and my baby nearly died or whatever, like Goon.. mentioned.
Seems perfectly reasonable to appropriately use an herb that grows from the earth, and has been safely used for Centuries (not decades) for morning sickness, nausea, headaches, pain in general, etc etc.
I don't trust pharmacy.
I do trust nature.
Obviously alot of people have things a little differently than I do, but I feel with better self-education people's mentality might possibly just maybe *shift*...
{people, educate yourselves!!}
you've got my vote for president.
I do agree that they wrongly classify it as an illegal drug that seems very dangerous. When in fact the drug isn't as dangerous as alcohol or tobacco.
On the contrary, marijuana shouldn't be sold as a herbal remedy for nausea like you see ginger root. It should still be a drug that should have an age limit and that is over ruled when using it to treat cancers or tumors and other sicknesses which it can be pescribed by the doctors.
I think tha marijuana can be harmful to the body and unborn babies as well. We already only absorb 10% of the oxygen of the air we breath in, the smoke from the buring marijuana will decrease that amount of oxygen. It can also damage our lungs like tobacco can, although not as worse, still very bad. Just living in a city, your lungs are damaged and you can see it physically.
smoke and pregnancy should never be mixed. (despite your experiences, it is still not a good idea and certainly should not be promoted, i doubt your results would be typical if continued through a study with a large group of mothers.... this is not an attempt at propaganda, i hate that crap as much as anyone, i just wouldn't consume any substances such as thc, nicotine, alcohol, caffeine, ect. if i were an expectant mother)
i'm all for legalization though. it would increase the prevalence of hemp in textiles (1 acre of hemp produces the same amount of paper as 2 acres of trees), decrease federal spending on the war on drugs, decrease violent-drug related crimes, decrease America's prison population (and thus spending), could be taxed very heavily, pureness could be regulated to prevent lacing overdoses, if done by the right politician legalization could even be spun into a major piece of civil rights legislation. i don't understand and really have never heard a legit argument great enough to contest or overrule the facts i stated above.
to the two posts below:
-taxation can be carried out for marijuana, it is currently a bigger expense than it is an asset to the government.
-should harmful substances be outlawed? what about caffeine, cigarettes, and alcohol? marijuana is far less addictive and generally less harmful than the afore mentioned substances. not to mention that one of the major reasons the substance was made illegal to begin with was the competition it posed to the cotton industry (not due to the harm of smoking it).
the only reason why marijuana is illegal is because the goverment cant make money from it.
If the goverment ever found a way to make money from the sale of marijuana , like cigarettes and alcohol it would be legal and every convience store in the country would sell it
Marijuana use is a major contributor to the development of schizophrenia. Even casual users can develop schizophrenia after a few uses of the drug, which is a lifelong and debilitating psychiatric illness. This is proven medical science.
I googled this http://www.estronaut.com/a/pregnancy_wit...
and think it says it all.
Nobody worried about alcohol usage during pregnancy for years, and now the recommendation is NO alcohol. Marijuana is a much lesser used drug, and is usually absorbed into the body through inhaling smoke, which is unnatural and can't be good for you.
I think any pregnant woman who is concerned about her unborn child wouldn't touch marijuana with a 12 foot barge pole.
Marijuana is linked to infertility, low birth weight in babies, later behavioural problems, stunted growth, physical abnormalities, lower intelligence, and problems with language development and memory. Usage has also been connected to a higher incidence of childhood cancer. What expectant mother would want that?
Marijuana is illegal in many countries for a legitimate reason -- it is hazardous to your health. Why would you expose an innocent unborn baby to a drug when doctors recommend you avoid it during pregnancy?
Do what you like to your own body, but don't involve another innocent person, even if they're your own child, by putting that crap in your body while pregnant. That's just evil.
My mother took a legal and prescribed anti nausea drug, which was later found to have caused my sister's severe heart problems. She died and was resuscitated 3 times. And that was from a legal drug. Who knows what contaminants could be in the marijuana you are smoking? What trace pesticides or chemicals you don't know about. It's just too risky.
And having no ill effects on your own pregnancies isn't really a definitive clinical study, and only proves that you were lucky your kids turned out reasonably healthy.
While I am definitely an advocate for medical marijuana and also do not automatically freak out when I hear people are using it during pregnancy, you are naive if you believe there are zero risks to pregnant women and their fetus.
When marijuana is smoked, you are giving yourself the same potential risks as if you smoked cigarettes - increased blood pressure, decreased blood flow to the placenta, risk for miscarriage and preterm labor, risk for small birthweight baby. A couple of studies have shown a possible link between maternal marijuana use and ADD / ADHD in their children once they are toddlers or school aged children, but this has yet to be confirmed.
So yes, there are risks. But they are generally small and not too significant.
You cannot draw scientific conclusions based on your limited personal experience. If your babies were born large, you are fortunate. I have seen plenty of babies born to smokers (both cigs and marijuana) who were of low birthweight. The science is there to back up these claims. No, not every woman will have problems, but that doesn't mean something is 100% safe.
I don't know what it will take to change public policy. IMO, nothing short of having the old-school politicians die off and be replaced with the younger, more forward thinking politicians will get some legislation passed to change the scheduled class of marijuana and approval for a greater variety of medical concerns.
all the Fed has to do is legalize and tax in the same manner as tobacco and alcohol........would save $ in "war on drugs" bs and be a source of revenue. I am not a user but have many friends ( doctors, lawyers, accountants, mechanics, all walks of life) who are and seem to do ok
its better then pills
I have used mj recreationally and medically through my cancer treatment.
I am a full supporter of legalization for both purposes. However, I still think it should be regulated. I think there should be age restrictions just like alcohol and tobacco.
I do NOT think it should be considered an herbal remedy, though. That gives a lot of false hope that mj will do things that it does not do.
However, even though I am an mj supporter, I draw my line at smoking while preg. It may not cause defects, but it does damage the fetus. The fetus is not getting as much oxygen when you are smoking. Mj damages the lungs when smoked the same way cigs do. Any kind of smoke will. If you are a long time smoker, your longs will have significant damage. While you are preg, your lungs are not carrying as much oxygen to the baby.
But, I am one of those people who has decided that when I am preg I will be eating completly organic with no drugs of any type.
I find it kind of ironic (and funny) that your username is "commonsensemom" and you say you smoked both tobacco AND marijuana during your pregnancies.
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