The Cut - Weed's Last Taboo: Pregnancy

Modern motherhood is a marvel and a minefield. An obstacle course of risk-reward calculations for which we will be judged. And pregnancy serves a sort of boot camp, with every decision feeling more monumental than the last, as a legion of friends, family, caregivers, influencers, and experts (real and imagined) readily dispense opinions on all of it. Sushi. Unpasteurized cheese. Cold cuts. Cardio. Retinol. Highlights. Gardening. Wine.

Weed?

It was Tara’s midwife who suggested it, actually. When Tara, a 31-year-old Los Angeles–based psychotherapist whose name isn’t really Tara, became pregnant, she could not stop vomiting. She thought some of her nausea was psychological — it was a mid-pandemic unplanned pregnancy — and some probably not. Her mom had suffered similarly throughout pregnancy. She had tried vitamin B6 and Unisom (a popular combination for treating nausea), acupuncture, IV drips, and ginger candies. Nothing worked.

There are new emojis on the way, including a sexy lip-biting one that your mom will probably send to you thinking it’s something innocent like “trying not to laugh.” Brad Pitt reportedly surrounds himself with a “large group of artsy friends,” like Swedish singer Lykke Li. Love that for him. The royal family’s priorities are laughable — they don’t want Andrew taking the stand in a trial because it could overshadow the queen’s upcoming Platinum Jubilee. Great news for college kids: Mountain Dew’s tropical lime-flavored beverage Baja Blast, which originated at Taco Bell, is getting the boozy treatment. Imagine being the editor who had to tell their author that their new cookbook was literally lost at sea. Then imagine fish reading those sunken cookbooks and coming across a seafood recipe. New data shows Americans are seriously miserable. And meet the newest (feline) addition to the First Family, Willow.

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