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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Pregnant cannabis smokers have children with better global motion perception 🌿Pregnant cannabis smokers have children with better global motion perception
Is it better for women to smoke marijuana when they're pregnant? Probably not, but a study conducted in New Zealand shows that children who were born from mothers who imbibed in cannabis when carrying scored better in an area of brain development, as opposed to those who didn't smoke weed.
The test from Auckland University took 165 children aged four and younger and asked them to watch multiple moving dots on a screen. They were then asked to identify the main direction that the dots moved in to help the researchers assess the youngsters' global motion perception.
Arijit Chakraborty, author of the study, said: "Children who were exposed to marijuana were almost 50% better at the global motion task than those who were not."The children had been exposed to difference combinations of methamphetamine, alcohol, nicotine and marijuana before birth, along with 25 unexposed children.They found that the mums who smoked...
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