Now they’re edging up on adolescence,” Baranger notes in the statement. “We know this is a period when a large proportion of mental health diagnoses occur,” he reports. Children exposed to cannabis in the womb may show elevated rates of symptoms of mental disorders such as depression and anxiety even years later at ages 11 and 12, report investigators from Washington University in Missouri. This is “potentially associated with increasing acceptance of cannabis use and decreasing perceptions of cannabis-associated harms,” the authors wrote. To get an answer, Baranger returned to the 10,500-plus children, whose average age was 10 in 2020, from the earlier review. The age change is an important one, investigators contend. “During the first wave, they were just children.
Children exposed to cannabis in the womb may show elevated rates of symptoms of mental disorders such as depression and anxiety even years later at ages 11 and 12, report investigators from Washington University in Missouri.
Researchers point out that these potentially elevated rates are still holding on as the children near adolescence.
“Once they hit 14 or 15, we’re expecting to see further increases in mental health disorders or other psychiatric conditions — increases that will continue into the kids’ early 20s,” David Baranger, a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences’ BRAIN Lab, which...
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