Last year, there was a marijuana plant growing next to the fence behind our house.
No one knew how it got there, but I knew it was there.
Every time the wind blew in the right direction, I could smell the marijuana, and it made me sick. Something about the odor of marijuana turned my sick. When I got older, I had to be careful going through town. No one else noticed the smell of marijuana coming from the medical marijuana dispensary, but I did. If we were travelling, I was always the first one to pick up on the odor. When I first got pregnant with my first child, I was having a lot of difficulty with morning sickness. I was thin when I got pregnant, and I lost nearly twenty pounds in the first three months because of the nausea. When I got pregnant with my second child, I was already expecting the nausea, but it was even worse. I talked to the doctor about medications I could take, but he recommended nothing. My best friend told me she had been using medical marijuana when she got pregnant. The doctor told her to switch to CBD, and she found it had helped with her nausea. She had no problem with morning sickness. The next day, I called and asked where I could get plain CBD. She said she got hers at the medical marijuana dispensary, but they sold a like marijuana product at the local pharmacy. I was eager to find out if it could affect the fetus, but everything I read said it was safe, as long as it was just CBD. I spent the rest of my first trimester without nausea, and I gained almost five pounds.