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The medical establishment loathes when free-thinking people stray from its prescribed methods of disease treatment, which is imperious beast is aggressively trying to force a Colorado mother, who for more than a year has been successfully treating her leukemic son with healing non-Psychoactive cannabis oil, to instead poison her child with toxic chemotherapy, and possibly kill him in the process. The 30-day test showed that children of ganja-using mothers were superior to children of non-ganja mothers in two ways: the children had better organization and modulation of sleeping and waking, and they were less prone to stress-related anxiety. The editors of Patients for Medical Cannabis were in attendance at the final hearing of the Iowa pharmacy Board's review of medical marijuana, where Dr. Melanie Dreher presented the results of her studies with "ganja babies" over the phone. She has been studying the medical uses of ganja, as it's called in Jamaica, for 30 years.
Dreher found that marijuana was being used in a cultural and medical context, as a way to relieve morning sickness or nausea, prevent depression and fatigue, and improve appetites. Her team observed both the mothers who used marijuana and their infants; they reported that there were no signs of birth defects or of behavioral problems in the marijuana exposed children either during the month after birth or several years after. Although no positive or negative neurobehavioral effects of prenatal exposure were found at 3 days of life using the Brazelton examination, there were significant differences between the exposed and non-exposed reonates at the end of the first month.
The results of the comparison of neonates of the heavy-marijuana-using mothers and those of the non-using mothers were even more striking.
- The heavily exposed neonates were more socially responsive and were more autonomically stable at 30 days than their matched counterparts.
- Quality of their alertness was higher;
- Their motor and autonomic systems were more robust;
- they were less irritable;
- they were less likely to demonstrate any imbalance of tone;
- they needed less examiner facilitation to become organized;
- they had better self-regulation;
- judged to be more rewarding for caregivers than the neonates of non-using mothers at 1 month of age
- Dreher a perpetual overachiever who earned honors degrees in nursing, anthropology and philosophy before being awarded a PhD in anthropology from prestigious Columbia University in 1977. Recently, she "googled to see what was out there for the general public regarding pregnancy and marijuana." Typical of the disinformation was an article entitled "Exposure to marijuana in womb may harm brain' that began "Over the past decade several studies have linked behavior problems and lower IQ scores in children to prenatal use of marijuana.....