by Barbara Platts | Feb 23, 2021 | Innovation, Parenting
This personal essay was originally published on Lunch Ticket, a literary and art journal dedicated to issues of social, economic, and environmental justice. Click here to see the original post. I’ve never been particularly good at change. When I was nine years...
by Sweet Jane | Apr 28, 2020 | Parenting, Women
A personal Essay on Mental Health, Pregnancy, and Cannabis When I found out I was pregnant last fall, I immediately stopped medicating with cannabis, as I had done in my first pregnancy years earlier. Before the first one, which was in 2013, I’d been partaking a few...
by Barbara Platts | Dec 18, 2019 | Well-Being
Beginning in late 2020, all cannabis products sold legally in the state of California will be required to contain a new warning label stating that cannabis “may be harmful” for women who are breastfeeding or pregnant, as well as for the women’s developing fetuses and...
by Barbara Platts | Nov 15, 2019 | Well-Being
We explore the topic in Issue 02 of Sweet Jane Magazine Legal access to cannabis in the U.S. means more women are grappling with whether to consume the plant while pregnant. The percentage of pregnant women in the U.S. self-reporting cannabis use within the last month...
by Undark Magazine | Aug 29, 2019 | Parenting, Well-Being
Social media users extol — and health experts decry — a 25-year-old study from Jamaica suggesting cannabis use poses no harm to fetal development. August 28, 2019 by Alice Callahan Fifty years ago this summer, Melanie Dreher, a registered nurse and young graduate...
