50 years ago, scientists warned of marijuana’s effects on the unborn
Excerpt from the September 27, 1969 issue of Science News
POT PLUS PREGNANCY Scientists are still figuring out how marijuana use by pregnant women might affect developing fetuses.
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Pinning down the weed, Science News, September 27, 1969 —
New research hints that marijuana may have serious physiological effects that should make it, like cigarettes, carry a warning … The possibility that marijuana is teratogenic, causing damage to unborn children, is a specter that as yet cannot be put down … [T]here is already some information indicating that THC readily crosses the placenta and enters the fetus.