I had to quit medical marijuana while pregnant.
I had been dealing with severe anxieties for several years when I discovered medical marijuana. I was finally able to have a normal life again. I met a wonderful man, fell in love, and got married about a year ago. With medical marijuana I can control my anxiety and live a fairly happy and healthy life. That was until I got pregnant. I worried what the medical marijuana would do to my baby? I talked to my doctor and he said there hadn’t been a lot of research on the effects of marijuana on the fetus, but he had his own thoughts. He wanted me to keep in mind that I had to deal with my mental health. Without medical marijuana, I could end up with severe postpartum depression. Even with it, I could have postpartum depression, but medical marijuana would help to ease it. On the other hand, I had to make sure my baby was growing properly and developing normally. I would need to go to the doctors more often, whether or not I was using the marijuana. He told me the choice was mine, and he wasn’t going to sway me one way or the other. I asked for his opinion as a friend. He took a deep breath. The doctor told me if I was using marijuana for recreational use, he would be giving me an equivocal no to its use. Since I was using medical marijuana, he told me to be cautious. Pregnancy could affect how I process the marijuana as much as it could affect the baby. I still had no real answers to my questions.