19-12-2016 23:09 via 10tv.com

More U.S. women using pot during pregnancy

CHICAGO -- U.S. women are increasingly using marijuana during pregnancy, sometimes to treat morning sickness, new reports suggest. Though the actual numbers are small, the trend raises concerns because of evidence linking the drug with low birth weights and other problems.In 2014, almost 4 percent of pregnant women said they’d recently used marijuana, up from 2.4 percent in 2002, according to an analysis of annual drug use surveys.Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug
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