And thanks Niliac for being sweet - group hugs people!
For sure Marcellus - concoctions of drugs can be a dangerous thing.
Without being too intimate I can give you two examples of people - exclusive cannabis users - that were institutionalized before they hit their 20's. Very sad indeed, and you know what? They weren't alone. This appeared to be the psych units largest demographic.
Now I'm not being preachy - this is something I know from seeing with my own eyes unfortunately. It's not meant to be a scare campaign, though my articulation may appear that way!!
We can all have a bit of a Cheech-and-Chong-esque giggle about how we handle illicits, but we need to know that some people can't and there is still a lot we don't know about how this translates to a baby at the height of their brain development.
Arimeh and Lulu have a key point here. There was nothing abnormal to report about a study group of Rastafarian women and their children. I surmise this could be because what they smoke is purer with a THC component that is milder.
My gut instinct has always been that it's THC we need to be concerned about. I haven't absorbed a whole lot of facts on this theory, but the first page of Google (which is as far as I got) held an interesting study that may support this claim.
It does look like THC has benefits also. Hopefully future studies will isolate the good stuff so we don't have to have this conversation in 50+ years!
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