Pregnant women in Jamaica use marijuana regularly to relieve nausea, as well as to relieve stress and depression, often in the form of a tea or tonic. In the late 1960s, grad student Melanie Dreher was chosen by her professors to perform an ethnographic study on marijuana use in Jamaica to observe and document its usage and its consequences among pregnant women. Dreher studied 24 Jamaican infants exposed to marijuana prenatally and 20 infants that were not exposed. Her work evolved into the book Women and Cannabis: Medicine, Science and Sociology, part of which included her field studies. Most North American studies have shown marijuana use can cause birth defects and developmental problems. Those studies did not isolate marijuana use, however, lumping cannabis with more destructive substances ranging from alcohol and tobacco to meth and heroin. In Jamaica, Dreher found a culture that policed its own ganja intake and considers its use spiritual. For the herb’s impact when used during pregnancy, she handed over reports utilizing the Brazelton Scale, the highly recognized neonatal behavioral assessment that evaluates behavior. The profile identifies the baby’s strengths, adaptive responses and possible vulnerabilities. The researchers continued to evaluate the children from the study up to 5 years old. The results showed no negative impact on the children, on the contrary they seemed to excel. Plenty of people did not like that answer, particularly her funders, the National Institute on Drug Abuse. They did not continue to flip the bill for the study and did not readily release its results. 💁 . Full article: http://www.theweedblog.com/jamaican-study-of-pregnant-mothers-shows-that-marijuana-doesnt-harm-newborns/ #AboveTheIgnorance #SmokingStrong #Prop215 #MarijuanaAdvocate #WeShouldSmoke #KnowThySELF #WakeUp #CannabisCuresCancer #Weed4Warriors #ConsciousCollective #ParadigmShift #GrowWithSho only you are responsible for your thoughts and actions. Therefore take full accountability, make your own choices. Know your own truth. There is but one. We are all one. Let go. Let love 😍 #GodIsLove #OneIsAll #AllIsOne #WeAreOne