Pregnant women

According to Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), treating addiction as a criminal matter is ineffective and should instead be viewed as a public health issue. NIDA aims to advance science on the causes and consequences of drug use and addiction...

In Michigan, where medical and adult-use marijuana has been legal since 2008 and 2018, respectively pregnant women who consume cannabis to treat their illnesses are still in trouble. An example is Josey Scoggin, a mother from Kalamazoo who uses a wheelchair and has legally...