Is Smoking Weed While Pregnant Safe?

As a woman and a mother want to be, I always curious about the fact of smoking weed while pregnant is safe or not. Even I actually do not smoke marijuana, but many women outside there do. And this is important information to those women who love to smoke weed but also having pregnant or want to get pregnancy soon. One thing for sure is that marijuana is different from other drugs like cocaine, heroin and so on. Many studies show that the effect of smoking marijuana is not as risky as if you smoke other type of drugs, however it does not mean that smoking this weed is free from risk right? Moreover toward a pregnant woman, it probably can affect the health not only for her but also for the baby. Therefore, I will post this information to enlarge your knowledge about this issue.

Melanie Draher’s study

When talking about smoking weed while pregnant, then I will remember to take a look to Melanie Draher’s study. She is a researcher that held a study about smoking marijuana during pregnancy in Jamaica. Most women in Jamaica are smoking weed to release stress and depression during the beginning of the pregnancy, and Dreher is interested to make a research. Maybe all of you have been thinking that it will be dangerous to smoke such weed during pregnancy, it probably can affect to the baby’s health, growth, brain and so on. But, the research finds that there is no harm effect of smoking weed during pregnancy to the newborn baby. Of course it is so surprising, since it also affect the donation of her research to stop giving their support to her. They maybe cannot accept that positive result since they expect to get a negative effect, so Dreher only gets her research up to 5 years old children and cannot continue to the adolescent stage and even adulthood live.

Other risky effects

Like I have said before that even smoking weed while pregnant does not harm the baby, but it is still not risk free. Some other studies find that the continuation of smoking marijuana to the last trimester of pregnancy and also to the delivery time, can affect to the baby’s weight. The research said that it can effect to the lower birth weight to the newborn baby if the mother continues to smoke weed. Therefore, whether it is right or not, if you are love to smoke weed and then you are now pregnant, you better visit your doctor to get the more explanation and information about this issue.