New fear: Medical pot, pregnancy

Arizona pediatricians are concerned that the state's medical-marijuana law is being used to treat the ailments of pregnant women, potentially harming fetuses.

Members of the Arizona chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics want to stop the practice and point to one incident in which a mother in labor told hospital officials that she had received a medical-marijuana card during pregnancy and had been using the drug.

The mother later told her baby's pediatrician, Kara Tiffany, that a physician who was aware of her pregnancy recommended the marijuana. The mother showed the pediatrician her medical-marijuana-certification documents, which indicated that a naturopath made the marijuana recommendation.

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