THEY MUST BE TOKING

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 people 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 Camels from
their bloated fingertips, all in the belief that unborn children will
suffer harm from their mothers' 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.