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Maternal use of cannabis and pregnancy outcome.

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Authors: David M. Fergusson, L. John Horwood, Kate Northstone, ALSPAC Study Team
BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology, January 2002
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OBJECTIVE: To document the prevalence of cannabis use in a large sample of British women studied during pregnancy, to determine the association between cannabis use and social and lifestyle factors and assess any independent effects on pregnancy outcome. DESIGN: Self-completed…

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Poor and pregnant: perinatal ganja use in rural Jamaica.

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

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