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TheSarcastinator

(854 posts)
Thu Feb 26, 2015, 02:06 PM Feb 2015

Not Satire, Just Stupid: Colorado’s ‘Pot Pregnancies’ Birthing New Generation of Crack Babies

Considering the so-called "crack baby epidemic" has now been completely debunked as Reagen-era Drug War BS (see the NY Times expose just a year or two ago called 'The Epidemic That Wasn't" for further details), this is some very, very funny stuff.

From G. Becks's "The Blaze", natch.

http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/colorados-pot-pregnancies-birthing-new-generation-of-crack-babies/

"In order to treat symptoms as well as help alleviate the pain of the withdrawal process, the physicians in Colorado report they have had to reintroduce doses of THC to expectant mothers, which of course leaves their babies susceptible to addiction and the complications above which often must be treated in neonatal units.

The emerging situation is not unlike babies who are addicted to crack."

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Not Satire, Just Stupid: Colorado’s ‘Pot Pregnancies’ Birthing New Generation of Crack Babies (Original Post) TheSarcastinator Feb 2015 OP
the pain of the withdrawal process.. frylock Feb 2015 #1
I question the source tabbycat31 Feb 2015 #2
2 issues. No, make that 3 Quantess Feb 2015 #3

Quantess

(27,630 posts)
3. 2 issues. No, make that 3
Thu Feb 26, 2015, 04:29 PM
Feb 2015

#1. No way will I click on a Glenn Beck link.
#2. Prenatal cocaine exposure is a real thing, and although it was overblown as an "epidemic". cocaine actually is harmful to fetal development, albeit not nearly as harmful as fetal alcohol exposure.
#3. Fuck Glenn Beck.

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