Clearing the smoke on cannabis : Dissiper la fumée entourant le cannabis : effets du cannabis pendant la grossesse, version actualisée

The or brownish material consisting of Maternal Health Practices and the dried flowering, fruiting tops Prevalence of Cannabis Use during Pregnancy Child Development (MHPCD) study and leaves of the cannabis plant, in Pittsburgh commenced in 1982 Cannabis sativa. [...] At MHPCD studies reported that in children around the age the age of four, the OPPS failed to find evidence of a of nine, prenatal cannabis exposure has been linked with negative relationship between cannabis exposure and impaired abstract and visual reasoning, poor performance attention (Fried & Watkinson, 1990), whereas the MHPCD on tasks reflecting executive functioning (i.e., visual-motor has [...] The study authors transfer of information and visual-motor coordination have also noted that the relationship between prenatal exposure been linked with prenatal exposure to cannabis, and these to cannabis and delinquent behaviour also appears to effects were found at light to moderate levels of prenatal be mediated by the effects of cannabis on depressive cannabis exposure in the MHPCD (Willford, [...] Alterations to these systems may possibly explain were also evident when the offspring were 22 years of the effects that cannabis is having on the children exposed age and the likelihood of cannabis use was related to the to this drug. [...] This study revealed that of childbearing age, the potential impact of cannabis on the only 51% of healthcare professionals asked their pregnant developing brain and the long-term influence on cognition, patients about drug use and approximately 68% did not behaviour and mental health are still not well-appreciated.