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Weed and kids are a risky mix — but ‘Garden Moms’ are toking up

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Motherhood is hard; weed helps: That’s the toxic message from a new group of online influencers — “gardeners,” they like to call themselves — who advocate using cannabis to deal with the stress of parenting small children.

A recent article in The Atlantic by Sarah Levy tallied 76,000 videos on TikTok with the “#gardenmom” label.

There’s Taylor Mitchem (with 120,000 followers), who had a baby in 2020 and felt responsible for most of the child care because her husband was too nervous to help much.

She was a regular weed user before her baby was born to help with her anxiety and ADHD.

So she decided to resume her habit, and began smoking again daily when her kid was 2 ½.

“Life is hard,” she told Levy. “If you have something that takes the edge off a little bit, why not?”

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Why not? Because parenting small children while high on drugs is a recipe for disaster.

Using marijuana during pregnancy has been linked to low birth weights and pre-term birth, as well as to abnormal neurological development and a higher likelihood that the child will develop........

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