I want people to see this. I just posted it in a different section.

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If you think that smoking weed while you're pregnant is okay...think again.

Babies are meant to be born without Melatonin and have to rely on their Mother's Breast Milk to get it, the first 3 months, until their Pineal starts producing it naturallly, through Amino Acids.

Smoking Weed raises your Melatonin Levels 4,000%, two hours after smoking a joint.

This is off of Melatonin.com:

Should certain people avoid it?

Yes. "Those include women who are pregnant or nursing (since no one knows how excessive exposure to the hormone might affect a fetus or infant); people with severe allergies or autoimmune diseases (melatonin could exacerbate such conditions by stimulating the immune system); people with immune-system cancers such as lymphoma or leukemia (for the same reason), and healthy children (who already produce it in abundance). Women trying to conceive should also think twice about taking the hormone, since high doses can act as a contraceptive." As with any substance introduced into your body, if you have a medical condition you should always consult your physician first before taking melatonin.

Just wait for the ignorant assholes who are going to say
" i am 45 years old and i have a pot baby, she is 25. she is an investment banker and nothing is wrong with her at all. i smoked 2 joints a day everyday i was pregnant with her."

Goodpost beachguy

Thanks, Tyler K. :stoned:

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Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs

Smoking Weed raises your Melatonin Levels 4,000%, two hours after smoking a joint.

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:what:

That's not on melatonin.com (which is a commercial site, btw).

I know exposure to the sun raises melatonin levels, but never heard that pot did.

-ignorant 44 year old asshole

:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by tylerkane

Just wait for the ignorant assholes who are going to say
" i am 45 years old and i have a pot baby, she is 25. she is an investment banker and nothing is wrong with her at all. i smoked 2 joints a day everyday i was pregnant with her."

Goodpost beachguy

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Now I'm no physician, but my mom did smoke a lot of pot when she was pregnant with me, and there is nothing wrong with me at all. I'm not saying it can't have any negative effects, but there are certainly enough counterexamples that I know of which show that it is possible to smoke pot during pregnancy and still have a healthy baby.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melatonin :
"There have not been sufficient studies done on pregnant women concerning possible teratogenic effects. This is an area that needs to be addressed."

Thats not fact.

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Originally Posted by Sinsemilla Jones

I know exposure to the sun raises melatonin levels, but never heard that pot did.

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Perhaps you're thinking of melanin, the chemical which determines skin color.

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Originally Posted by ermitonto

Perhaps you're thinking of melanin, the chemical which determines skin color.

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Melanin, the pigment responsible for dark skin in some peoples and for tanning after exposure to sunlight in light-skinned peoples, is produced from the "natural" indole and amino acid, tryptophan. Melatonin, which is synthesized by our bodies only in the dark, blocks the synthesis of melanin.

http://www.vitaletherapeutics.org/vtlindol.htm

Wait. So if smoking pot increases your melatonin levels, and melatonin blocks the synthesis of melanin, does that mean smoking pot makes you whiter? If so, I think I just found the explanation for Michael Jackson. :stoned: :stoned: :stoned:

on the daily factoid there was some test or somethin on preg people and they smoked weed and out of all of them none of the women had a problem with there babys