In what they call the largest study ever done, researchers found using marijuana while pregnant may increase the risk that a child will develop autism.
"Women who used cannabis during pregnancy were 1.5 times more likely to have a child with autism," said study author Dr. Darine El-Chaâr, a maternal fetal medicine specialist and clinical investigator at Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Canada.Smoking weed and coronavirus: Even occasional use raises risk of Covid-19 complications"These are not reassuring findings. We highly discourage use of cannabis during pregnancy and breastfeeding," she said.
"Pregnant women or women contemplating pregnancy should be encouraged to discontinue use of marijuana for medicinal purposes in favor of an alternative therapy for which there are better pregnancy-specific safety data," ACOG states in its recommendations. "There are insufficient data to evaluate the effects of marijuana use on infants during lactation and breastfeeding, and in the absence of such data, marijuana use is discouraged.
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