Dear Lactnet Friends:
Just because THC is stored in fat for a month does not mean the person is
high for a month. This is where testing for marijuana in the workplace is
unfair. Someone could smoke recreationally at a party, and then test
positive for weeks afterwards, even though they are high for only a few
hours.
The Colorado fact sheet, while useful, misses one thing. People smoke
marijuana for nausea, for medical reasons, to sleep. . . .and because it is
fun. People like to do fun things. Trouble is that fun things for adults
are not good for babies.
The implication in many such fact sheets is that if a person is smoking
marijuana, they must have a drug dependency problem. This may be true for
some people, but for many it isn't. There is the recreational side. There
is not one single case study of any overdose.
I have heard that second hand smoke is a SIDS-risk, no matter what kind of
smoke it is. However, marijuana has not been researched to the same depth
that has tobacco, so we don't know for sure. We will find out.
Ideally, we don't want babies and children exposed to any substances. But,
as the US is a very much a drug culture, (just look at TV with all the drug
ads for things that weren't even considered diseases 2 decades ago) and the
pharmaceutical industry is a big money maker, what is said and what is
done are disconnected.
The US has more drugged children than ever before: healthy children are
given psychoactive prescription medication because they can't sit still for
hours in school. Toddlers are being given anti-depressants by physicians,
without any long-term studies and without any sensible evaluation of
environment. (<http://www.biopsychiatry.com/antidepressants/toddlers.html>)
Research shows that amount of TV exposure is connected to learning problems
in children. Yet there is no public campaign about that. We know that
formula feeding doubles the risk of SIDS; yet there is no public campaign
about that. We know that tobacco smoke, whether 1st, 2nd, or 3rd hand, is
lethal to babies; yet there is no public campaign about that. People have
their knickers in a twist about marijuana, though.
Watch the movie Reefer Madness. The attitude expressed in that movie has
filtered into society; as Liz Brooks wrote, it is equated with heroin.
Another factor in this mess is that the Alcohol industry is fighting the
legalization of marijuana as they fear less people will buy booze, a truly
dangerous and legal substance.
warmly,
--
Nikki Lee RN, BSN, Mother of 2, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI, ANLC, CKC
Author:* Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Breastfeeding Therapy*
www.nikkileehealth.com
https://www.facebook.com/nikkileehealth
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