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Oklahoma Is Prosecuting Pregnant Women for Using Medical Marijuana

In Alabama, pregnant women have been prosecuted after filling prescriptions for medications from their doctors. Officials in Arizona placed one mother on a career-limiting child abuse registry after the birth of her son in 2019, claiming she had neglected her unborn child by using marijuana with a medical license. That case was overturned earlier this year, with the appeals court finding that medical marijuana was similar to any medicine used under physician’s care. […]