Cannabis use is discouraged during pregnancy and during nursing. Substances in cannabis can transfer from the mother to child and can affect your unborn or newborn baby.

Everyone's response to cannabis differs and can vary from one time to the next.

Like any other drug, cannabis can:

• Impair your ability to drive safely or operate heavy equipment
• It can cause drowsiness, slow reaction times, lower your ability to pay attention and impair coordination
• Affect your mental capacity
• Impair your concentration, memory and decision-making, and can impact your ability to perform well on the job or at school.[1]
• Cause euphoria (a high) it can also cause anxiety or panic.[2]
• In rare cases, cannabis can trigger a psychotic episode (not knowing what is real, experiencing paranoia, having disorganized thoughts and, in some cases, hallucinating).[3]

[1] [2] [3] World Health Organization (WHO). The health and social effects of nonmedical cannabis use.

There is really no difference between the terms of adult use and recreational use of cannabis. However, the term “adult-use” while is for better optics, it comes from the notion that not all consumers of cannabis are consuming solely for recreational purposes. Cannabis can and is utilized for many reasons that go beyond the recreational/ medicinal cannabis binary.

Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is one of the active ingredient and naturally occurring cannabinoids in cannabis. It is the cannabinoid with the greatest psychoactive effect. It is considered to be the most active form, producing characteristic mood and associated perceptual changes.