We don't know how a whole lot of drugs, both legal and illegal, affect pregnancy. It's hard to study drugs in pregnant folks. They're kind of a protected class in research. This is an issue people are trying to do something about because it means that we have a lot fewer options to treat various conditions in pregnant persons.
Many states have extremely punitive policies around cannabis and pregnancy. But researchers don't actually have great data on cannabis's harms.
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