
Public HealthSeptember 2, 2019
To Justify Using Weed, Some Pregnant Women Cling to an Old and Dubious Study
Social media users extol—and health experts decry—a 25-year-old study from Jamaica suggesting cannabis use poses no harm to fetal development
Alice Callahan is a freelance journalist based in Oregon whose work has appeared in The New York Times, FiveThirtyEight, and The Washington Post, among other outlets. She is the author of The Science of Mom: A Research-Based Guide to Your Baby's First Year.

To Justify Using Weed, Some Pregnant Women Cling to an Old and Dubious Study
Social media users extol—and health experts decry—a 25-year-old study from Jamaica suggesting cannabis use poses no harm to fetal development