No pain medication?? How can you say that and you are not a woman and never been in LABOR? Men need to do men things and let women do what nature intended for them..and that includes more female OB/GYN Dr's..seriously how can a man even know what a woman truly feels and needs in a childbirth..sure one can go to school and earn a license to treat us but that does not mean they can sympathize with something they have never experienced....much less continue with this natural child birth method...what is good for one does not make good for ALL...and uncontrolled pain CAN and DOES lead to complications...and that is from personal experience.....we all say its a plant..no harm..okay..but let it come to something that could relieve a womans pain and make the actual birth experience less stressful for mother and baby and suddenly its a solid no..yeah...oh also..there are certain "stages" of birth that medication can be safely given and when that baby moves in the birth canal..then I am all for a woman having immediate access to MJ...might even help speed things along if she could relax from the pain and push instead of having problems from prolonged labor and NO "drugs"....or being given a legal injection of pain medication and having adverse reactions to it.Some of you remind me of Tom Cruise and I really hope Katie lets out some words his way while she is attempting to do it the scientology way..silence. MJ should be legalized..seriously..the men have viagra and Levitra but we can't get the proof we need to have safe access to a plant that could be safer and actually more beneficial for pregnant women...and no I don't speak for every woman but quite a few...and I see no valid reason or explanations why women are still having men determine what is in our and the babies best interest.