The following report is from Study Finds:
Frequent cannabis use as a teenager may lead to issues decades later — not as much for the user, but for their children. A new study finds that heavy marijuana use as an adolescent and young adult can raise the risk of premature birth when those users become parents. The children of teen marijuana users are also more likely to have a low birth weight, raising their risk for future health problems.
A team from the University of Bristol studied 665 participants between the ages of 14 and 29 before pregnancy. They also examined their offspring after the group became parents. Study authors note their report is the first to identify a link between frequent cannabis use and generational health risks.
Their findings reveal that parents over 29 who used marijuana heavily between ages 15 and 17 are “considerably more likely” to have either a preterm baby or a child with low birth weight. Researchers note the results apply to both male and female participants.
Cannabis is the most commonly used illicit drug amongst teenagers. There is already evidence that frequent adolescent cannabis use increases the risks for poor mental health, but our results indicate there may be further effects that individuals may not anticipate.
As regulations around legal use liberalize, there is a possibility that adolescent use may increase in some countries. These findings provide additional motivation for ensuring that policy changes do not lead to greater adolescent use.
Dr. Lindsey Hines in a university release.
It’s Never A Good Time To Smoke For Parents
Previous studies have discovered that tobacco and marijuana use during pregnancy also contributes to higher rates of preterm births and underweight infants. Since substance use during pregnancy typically starts much earlier than that, the team wanted to look at the effects of marijuana use up to 20 years before a smoker decides to start a family.
Their results show that 20% of all premature births among the study group occurred among parents who used cannabis daily as a teen.
The more we study heavy cannabis use in the teens, the more problematic it looks. Given growing political and industry drivers for legalization of use, there is a pressing need for bigger and better research into understanding harms arising from heavy adolescent use.
George Patton, Professorial Fellow in Adolescent Health Research with the University of Melbourne and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.
The study appears in the journal Scientific Reports.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[19] Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, [20] Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, [21] Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Galatians 5:19-21
The Greek word for ‘sorcery’ and ‘witchcraft’ is “Pharmakeia,” where pharamacy gets its meaning. Drugs in other words. Witchcraft, by definition, is all about altering reality, and drugs will do that physically, mentally; which all effect you spiritually.
Do not get suckered into all the hype around smoking the Devil’s Lettuce. It’s not as serious as some of the other vile poisons out there that blows away Pot by leaps and bounds, but it’s not a worthy excuse either; so, do not get enticed and spoiled by people trying to justify their sin.
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Colossians 2:8
I do not know enough about the CBD issue to give a legitimate recommendation. Though I have seen evidence that CBD does cure cancer, along with some other things, but I stand on the side of caution just because I do not know enough about it. Besides, there are plethora of other things in God’s creation that designed to cure cancer, along with getting toxicity out of your life the best that you can.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Potheads being less likely to have kids is a good thing!
I know a young lady with three children, one of whom is an autistic little boy, & a health issue (born hydroencephalitic as a grandchild of my own…so we share a common concern). She has had multiple surgeries & is a perfect illustration of the abuses of the healthcare wealth transfer system….though it must also be admitted that the science helping people with her condition was also developing. In her case, many painful spinal taps were employed, as well as a draining shunt from brain to stomach.
She was not dependent upon the system due to an inheritance held in trust & parceled out, probably relating to family selling off inherited farmland, or perhaps gas well proceeds, which is common to this area & the timeframe. Anyways, in the course of things, she was prescribed opiates for pain & then antidepressants for her health struggles.
She was advised to take the flu vaccine while pregnant with her second child, a son, became ill & was hospitalized with influenza A. He was delivered early and autistic as a result.
She briefly lost custody of her children due to issues with the opiates & antidepressants, got off of them & became resolved to never let the system do that to her again. Then she had to have her shunt draining off excess nerve & brain fluid (there is an issue with the ventricle area of the brain & natural draining & cycling with those born hydroencephalitis….sometimes it resolves after birth, other times it doesn’t).
Her last brain surgery left her with a hospital-acquired staph infection, which resulted in the shunt being removed. She refused more hospital intervention & is trying to deal with all of this outside the broken system. Currently she’s dealing with her issues with natural herbals typically used for dropsy & fluid retention, & uses marijuana as part of her pain & inflammation, swelling issues.
She uses home-grown obtained locally because I guess the street smart don’t trust State marijuana & cannibis because it’s gmo & sometimes cut w/ other substances….& they’ve just learned to distrust the State & system period, full stop. Breaks my heart. She tried homeschooling, but couldn’t handle it & has the children back in school while they are on a two-year plan of savings & her last trust payment to move to her husband’s inherited land, potentially off-grid. The school harasses them constantly over vaccination, lying to them about it being State mandated when it is not, & the tendency is to give in.
We discussed these things because I mentioned trying isolated CBD for my husband’s inflammatory pain, which we stopped after just a few days because of the mood changes & swings it caused. She told me that was common with some people. Red flag to me, & we continue managing without it. Supposedly the mind-altering part of marijuana biochemistry is removed in the purified CBD oil, but our experience suggests otherwise. I won’t use it for my cancer care either, & believe such things should be reserved for end of life care as written in Proverbs….for the dying. And only then with caution for it’s not ‘mercy’ to render the lost incapable of free will communication & responding to the Gospel, & programs like Hospice etc have been very guilty of doing just that, as well as teaching their people that it is ‘unprofessional’ to give the Gospel or speak of dying with people because it hinders their healing.
We actually had a so-called ‘Christian’ homeschooling curriculum preparing young people for health & service ministry careers that taught that, too. That one was shelved, but the experience was certainly eye-opening about why things were going the way they were in this country & world.
So, I share these things because of the complexity & mercies that must be considered. This couple is closer to being saved than many absolutely hooked in to the system, & I pray for this family & do my best to witness & encourage her to reconsider home-schooling with different expectations & goals than the public schools & programs like their ‘state-approved, turnkey homeschool program’ K-12 at home program & such which are guaranteed to fail in the home setting, designed to keep families under the State-certified thumb through discouraging parents with methodologies & such geared to an institutional & ‘professional’ educating psych-tactics & sociology. You can’t ‘win’ with that….not as a Christian, because it’s antichrist & Babylonian from the get-go.
It’s touch & go, and sort of like the principle of not jumping into the water to save a person where both are likely to drown, but remaining on deck or shore extending the rescuing help….though, of course, we’re not the rescuer….just pointing souls towards the Lord’s rescue. The baptists have always stated that a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still, with regard to the Catholic & Augustinian wresting of ‘compelling them to come in’ (Luke 14:23) & John 1,3 & 8; 1 Peter 1; Romans 10:17 etc…..and that dead men can’t repent, which means that we employ ourselves to preserving life, & especially where there is not open & fierce enmity to the Gospel, but some openness.
Doesn’t make life easier….but then, that’s not what we’re called to. I believe that the optimal is a balanced & limited use of pharmaceutical drugs & hospital type interventions to the prolonging of life…..but sin & tyranny have done their usual muddying of the water, & here we are at the point of judgment because of it. Eze 32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
Ezekiel 34:18-19 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? :19 And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
Isaiah 59. Interesting that in the biblical references to witches & idols both, the Lord references the head, hands & feet. Revelation 17&18…. 2 Kings 9:35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
Romans 14:8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.
Another thought would be which type of marijuana they used in the study….the enhanced or the old school. There’s been that euthanasia arrogant & covetous, faithless mindset around for a long time.
Also, the exception only proves the rule, so wouldn’t necessarily argue for its use. When deciding between a natural or unnatural substance, or any intervention, it seems that optimally differing circumstances should be taken into account, as well as a careful consideration & reviews of pros & cons. This is best done by a doctor & fully informed patient….which has been messed up through both medical education & the direction of financial interests overriding more & more of the education & application of medicine. That’s one thing I would agree with the selectively vaccinating & Dr. Richard Fleming on.
As for the preterm & low birthrate, it could be the plant biochemistry, but would note that this didn’t seem to be a concern with the Native Americans who used both tobacco & marijuana medicinally & in their ungodly spiritual rituals. Unless they used it for birth control which I’ve never encountered any accounts of…..doesn’t mean it wasn’t. Otherwise, folks spaced out of their minds aren’t known for taking care of themselves nutritionally or healthwise which would also contribute to preterm & low birthrate.
Would be interesting to see the particulars of the study & how it was framed.