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Claire Alcindor’s fourth pregnancy last year

was the hardest. The only way she could keep

food down was by smoking marijuana, which

also helped with her depression.

She was living in Maryland, in a location

where marijuana is legal, but still worried “peo-

ple would think I’m a bad mom” – or worse.

Friends said Child Protective Services might

start investigating her. But it seemed worth the

risk, especially given the reported effects of some

prescription nausea and depression drugs.

“I needed to eat. I needed to stay alive and

survive this pregnancy,” says Alcindor, who now

lives in Las Vegas.

As more communities legalize or decriminal-

ize marijuana use across the country, federal

regulators and many doctors say pot is not a risk

worth taking while pregnant.

“I would say we are really rolling the dice with

our kids if we expose them to it,” says Dr. Neeraj

Gandotra, chief medical officer at the Substance

Abuse and Mental Health Services Administra-

tion at the Department of Health and Human

Services. “We have a preponderance of evidence

marijuana does affect brain development.”

Studies out this summer in the Journal of the

American Medical Association also reported a

Pot while

pregnant

Marijuana use by expectant moms

is becoming far more common

and concerning than many realize

Claire Thornton and Jayne O’Donnell

USA TODAY

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70%

The estimated

percentage of

400 Colorado

dispensaries that

recommended

treatment of

morning sickness

with cannabis.

12%

Percentage of

pre-term births for

marijuana users

(versus 6.1% for

non-users).

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Print’s not dead

to Gen Z students

say reading

physical

books

helps them

learn about

history.

85%

prefer

doing

reading

tasks on

paper

vs. online.

76%

say they

use physical

planners.

34%

SOURCE Canon USA survey

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IN NEWS

US Space Command

prepares for launch

VP Mike Pence announces big step

in creation of newest military branch

08.22.

College football’s

recruiting costs

rise dramatically

To compete and impress prospects,

schools spend more to pay for soaring

expenses. In Sports

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Christina Blackcloud remembers a

childhood of running freely between

her home on Iowa’s Meskwaki settle-

ment to annual harvest-time celebra-

tions across the street. She joined oth-

er kids playing in the water of the Iowa

River, a longtime source of fresh fish

for the state’s only federally recog-

nized tribe.

The same river today is brown,

murky and fenced off, she said. Black-

cloud’s children and grandchild aren’t

making the same memories on the

land, she lamented. “Fossil fuels, pipe-

lines, water quality, air quality – it all

affects tribal people first because ev-

erything we do and believe is centered

around nature,” she said. “Everything

we’re surrounded by is politics,

whether or not we see it every day.”

Blackcloud, vice chair of the Iowa

Democratic Party’s Native American

caucus, said she’s “hopeful for

change.” Presidential candidates visit-

ing the settlement she grew up on are

“showing they have an interest in trib-

al people’s priorities,” she said.

ELECTION 2020

Native

American

voters

could tip

states

Indigenous issues draw

more political attention

Ledyard King and Shelby Fleig

USA TODAY NETWORK

The Native American population

could affect races in battleground

states, and Democrats are putting

more focus on tribal priorities.

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If you think it’s been an unusually
quiet hurricane season, you’re right:
The last time we went from July 15
through Aug. 19 with no named storms
in the Atlantic was 1982, according to
Colorado State University meteorolo-
gist Phil Klotzbach.
Is this the calm before the storm?
History says yes: Over the years, the
period from Aug. 20 through Sept. 11
marks the sharpest increase in named
tropical systems in the Atlantic, Accu-
Weather said.
The latest hurricane forecast re-
leased Monday shows the rest of Au-
gust appears to favor a quiet pattern
for tropical storm and hurricane devel-
opment in the Atlantic Basin, accord-
ing to Colorado State.
The Atlantic Basin includes the At-
lantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and
the Gulf of Mexico.
“Wind shear has been quite exten-
sive across the Atlantic Basin the past
few weeks and is, in part, one of the
reasons why we have not seen any
tropical storm development across the
Atlantic Basin since mid-July with
Barry,” according to AccuWeather hur-
ricane expert Dan Kottlowski.
Wind shear – strong winds at high-

SOURCE ERSI; Colorado State University

USA TODAY

Atlantic

Ocean

Pacific

Ocean

Atlantic named storms,

Aug. 19-Sept. 1, 1966-

UNITED

STATES

AFRICA

SOUTH

AMERICA

Midseason hurricane

formations

Tropical storm

Cat 3-5 hurricane Cat 1-2 hurricane

Don’t expect

this hurricane

season to

remain quiet

Doyle Rice
USA TODAY

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After quietly making waves, star set

for lead in “Brittany Runs a Marathon”

IN LIFE

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