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My cousins has a michigan medical marijuana card and is pregnant. she wants to know the law on it, and if thc stays in the baby system longer then her.?

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THC stays in fat: I do not think it has been studied but we do know that mother's drug use does effect babies health adversely.Please do not expose fetus to drugs!

Answered 1/19/2015

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Dr. Pamela Pappas answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

MJ = bad for fetuses: Exposing one's fetus to marijuana is putting it directly in harm's way, law or no law. It's risking the baby's neurodevelopmental growth, even without direct physical malformation. These kids have trouble in school achievement, difficulty with higher order thinking, problem solving, etc. Also more depression plus substance abuse too. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc3188826/.

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