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Oklahoma Is Prosecuting Pregnant Women for Using Medical Marijuana [themarshallproject.org]

 
By Brianna Bailey, Photograph: Brianna Bailey/The Frontier, The Marshall Project, September 13, 2022

Two district attorneys have targeted
mothers with child neglect felonies.

NEWKIRK, OKLA. — Early in her pregnancy, Amanda Aguilar struggled with severe nausea that sometimes made it hard to eat.

A doctor had previously approved a medical marijuana license for her, so she used pot to ease her morning sickness.

Aguilar, 33, said she stopped using marijuana after her third month of pregnancy and tested negative for the drug after her healthy son was born in October 2020. But the hospital found traces of marijuana in her baby’s stool.

Two months later, the district attorney in Aguilar’s mostly rural county near the Kansas border charged her with child neglect, a felony. She has decided to fight the charge, and recently declined to comment on the advice of her public defender.

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Is there anything that's more evil than cannabis consumption?! ...

I remember a then-president Bill Clinton deciding against fully legalizing federally cannabis consumption after having championed it (or, at the very least, its decriminalization) prior to his election. 

Much worse, as president he greatly ramped up the 'war on drugs' — including against personal users, which needlessly unjustly destroyed lives — at the very same time he made it easier for bankers to become richer. And yet he probably slept/sleeps well at night, nonetheless. I definitely could not.

Regardless, cannabis products are known to be a healthier alternative to tranquilizer use/abuse and therefor a potential threat to pharmaceutical industry profits. Other than to pander to big pharma, which logically loves THC-consumption legal obstacles just fine, there was/is no good reason — morally, ethically or national interest — to maintain THC consumption's criminal status. ...

I know I've suffered enough unrelenting ACE-related hyper-anxiety to have known, enjoyed and appreciated the great release upon consuming alcohol and/or THC.

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