According to a Reuters article, U.S. doctors are still recommending that pregnant women and nursing women avoid marijuana.
“This recommendation is based on evidence for potential harm including decreased birthweights of fetuses exposed to marijuana and concern for an impact on neurological development based on longitudinal human studies,” said Dr. Torri Metz of the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City.
“More recent data also identifies a possible association between marijuana use and neonatal intensive care unit admission and stillbirth,” said Metz, who is the coauthor of the evidence review of marijuana use in pregnancy and while breastfeeding.
“There are no studies in which women who used marijuana for a condition are compared to those who did not in order to evaluate the efficacy of marijuana use for treating medical conditions in pregnancy,” Metz said. “As such, we do not have any evidence of a benefit of marijuana use in pregnancy.”
