POT AND PREGNANCY A BAD MIX

Researchers at B.C.'s University of Victoria say smoking a little
marijuana helps pregnant women cope with nausea.

Perhaps it does. The drug's nausea-fighting power has been described
before, by cancer patients who have found it helpful while undergoing
chemotherapy treatment.

But, whatever grace one might extend to a person trying to ease their
sufferings from a disease which could kill them, it cannot be
extended to pregnant women.

The medical profession warns them -- ad nauseam -- not to drink
alcohol, for the sake of the baby. It also urges them not to smoke
regular tobacco, and there are doubtless militant anti-smokers who
would snatch their Camel from their bloated fingertips, all in the
belief that the unborn child will suffer harm from their mother's indulgence.

Now, somebody with more degrees than a thermometer gives licence for
pregnant women to toke up? Not hard to imagine what they might be smoking.