Maternal Substance Use

Prenatal Cannabis Exposure Study: 9 Clear Findings

By Benjamin Caplan, MD

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February 18, 2026

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A new prenatal cannabis exposure study used meconium testing and Medicaid claims to examine well-child visits, ED use, and developmental delay coding. The headline is simple: no signal of increased utilization burden, and no higher developmental delay by…