Cannabis use during pregnancy can impact a child’s neurodevelopment Shutterstock/Joshua Resnick
Cannabis use during pregnancy may increase a child’s risk of developing neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism and ADHD.
Up to 5 per cent of people in the US report using cannabis while pregnant, making it one of the most widely used recreational drugs during pregnancy. Yet we know relatively little about how this might affect fetal development.
To investigate further, at Curtin University in Australia and his colleagues collected data on more than 220,000 pregnant…
