Is it better for women to smoke marijuana when they're pregnant? Probably not, but a study conducted in New Zealand shows that children who were born from mothers who imbibed in cannabis when carrying scored better in an area of brain development, as opposed to those who didn't smoke weed. 
 
The test from Auckland University took 165 children aged four and younger and asked them to watch multiple moving dots on a screen. They were then asked to identify the main direction that the dots moved in to help the researchers assess the youngsters' global motion perception. 
 
The children had been exposed to difference combinations of methamphetamine, alcohol, nicotine and marijuana before birth, along with 25 unexposed children.They found that the mums who smoked marijuana during pregnancy produced offspring that scored better than those that didn't. Furthermore, the more they smoked, the better their children performed. 
 
Arijit Chakraborty, author of the study, said: "Children who were exposed to marijuana were almost 50% better at the global motion task than those who were not." 
 
Unsurprisingly, those whose mothers drank alcohol performed worse, according to the study published in Scientific Reports, and the more the mothers drank the worse the children's scores were. When marijuana and alcohol were used by a mother, the effects cancelled each other out. 
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