Maternal marijuana use during lactation and infant development at one year.

Authors: Susan J. Astley, Ruth E. Little
Neurotoxicology and teratology, March-April 1990

Prenatal marijuana exposure is associated with adverse perinatal effects. Very little is known about the effect of postnatal marijuana exposure on infant development. Postnatal exposure can result from maternal use of marijuana during lactation. Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (T…

Poor and pregnant: perinatal ganja use in rural Jamaica.

Authors: Melanie C. Dreher
Advances in Alcohol & Substance Abuse, 1989

This paper reports the ethnographic findings from a study of cannabis use by pregnant women in rural Jamaica. The perceived functions of ganja in reducing the physiological symptoms of pregnancy and associated psychological stress are described in relation to the sociocultural…