A new U.S. study suggests that women who regularly use cannabis during and after pregnancy may increase the likelihood that their adult offspring smoke cannabis and tobacco.
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“Chronic maternal cannabis use is a risk factor for regular and dependent cannabis use and for dependent tobacco use among young adult offspring,” conclude authors of the study, published this week in Addictive Behaviors.
Study authors note that cannabis use is increasing among women during and after their pregnancies. Indeed, Frontiers in Psychiatry last year cited a report showing that last-month use among pregnant women aged 15 to 44 was about 4.9 per cent and 8.5 per
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