Marijuana may cause chromosomal defects in human egg cells, study finds

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN September 9, 20251/2

Marijuana may damage oocytes — unfertilized eggs in female ovaries — in ways researchers”worry” may leadto infertility, miscarriage and possible genetic defects in babies, new research has found.

==Higher levels of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC — a chemical in marijuana

that produces a euphoric feeling or “high” — was linked with changes in how eggs mature and a possible increase in chromosome malformations==, according to the study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.

“The findings of this study are concerning and highlight the importance of a cautious approach in using cannabis when planning to conceive,” said obstetrician Dr. Jamie Lo, an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and urology in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, in an email. She was not involved with the study.

Use of marijuana during pregnancy is rising. A June study found past-monthself-reported cannabis use has more than tripled among pregnant womenin the United States from 2002 to 2020. Numerous studies have linked marijuana use during pregnancy to autism, poor fetal development, low infant birth weight, dangerously early deliveries and even death.

The new study is “an exciting and novel approach to address a key gap in knowledge,” said Lo, who studies marijuana and fertility. A number of studies have looked at how marijuana might affect sperm, but until now no study had looked at the impact of marijuana on the human egg and ovarian follicle, she said.

A follicle is a small, fluid-filled sac in the ovary that contains one unfertilized egg. During a woman’s menstrual cycle, hormones kick off a chain of events that help the oocyte segregate chromosomes so it will be ready for fertilization by sperm.

Higher levels of THC appeared to impact this process, said lead study author Cyntia Duval, who conducted the study while a postdoctoral research fellow in ovarian biology at the University of Toronto.

However, the study can only show an association and not a direct cause and effect, said Duval, who nowdirects applied research at CReATe Fertility Centre, a fertility clinic in Toronto. (CReATe stands for Canadian Reproductive Assisted Technology.)(no wonder about them guessing)

“This is a hypothesis, and the worst thing I would want is for the public to read this and become fearful,” she said. “More studies are needed to verify our findings and determine how or even if the changes we observed affect reproduction.”

=Higher levels of THC most harmful

Researchers analyzed over 1,000 ovarian fluid samples from patients undergoing infertility treatment. Oocytes from a smaller group of 62 patients who tested positive for THC were compared with a matched control group with no detectable use of cannabis.

Compared with the control group, the group of patients with detectable levels of THC was associated with an increased oocyte maturation rate and a lower number of embryos with the correct number of chromosomes, the study team found.

On first glance, a higher maturation rate may appear to be positive, but developing too quickly can create problems with how oocytes prepare for reproduction, Duval said.

“Chromosomes need time to align perfectly to be ready to be fertilized by sperm and create healthy embryos,” she said. “So yes, we have more oocytes that are mature, but at what price if they don’t have the right number of chromosomes?”

https://lite.cnn.com/2025/09/09/health/marijuana-female-fertility-study-wellness

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Another part of the study examined extremely immature oocytes in vitro, which means in a test tube in the lab. The oocytes were donated by women undergoing fertility treatment and were not suitable for use, Duval said.

When exposed to THC for 24 hours in a petri dish, immature oocytes receiving higher levels of THC had more altered spindles — the structures that help chromosomes to segregate properly — which can lead to failures in embryonic development.

“The finding that exposure to higher levels of THC could be associated with worsened fertility and increased reproductive complications may help patients that cannot abstain from cannabis with a harm-reduction strategy,” Lo said.

“With this information, these patients can consider reducing the amount of cannabis that they are using to mitigate adverse outcomes to their babies.”

The potency of THC is not always obvious

The potency of THC quadrupled between 1995 and 2022 and is now even higher, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

“Cannabis flower and concentrates in dispensaries can have THC concentrations of more than 40%. Higher THC concentrations have been associated with a greater likelihood of cannabis use progressing to cannabis use disorder, among other health concerns,” the Institute states on its website.

This dangerous rise in potency may not be clear to consumers, experts fear. Looking at a product label might tell a person the “precise potency” of THC in a store where marijuana is legally sold. But “people buying cannabis illegally may not be able to access reliable information about the potency of the product they are using,” researcher Tom Freeman, a professor of psychology at the University of Bath, told CNN in a prior interview. He was not involved in the study.

“However, certain types of cannabis are typically more potent than others — cannabis extracts are typically more potent than cannabis flower,” said Freeman, director of the Addiction and Mental Health Group at the university in the United Kingdom.

While people do try to adjust their consumption when the potency of their cannabis varies, “such as by adding less cannabis to their joint or inhaling less deeply,” these efforts fail to completely work, he added.

That means “higher potency products still deliver a larger dose of THC to consumers than lower potency products,” Freeman said.

Womenmayunknowingly harm the success of their future pregnancy by being exposed to higher THC levels than they intended, Lo said.

“Because it’s hard to know the specific level of THC in various cannabis products on the shelves, I advise my patients to consider safer alternatives to treat the symptoms they’re using cannabis for or at least try to reduce the frequency of their use.”

https://lite.cnn.com/2025/09/09/health/marijuana-female-fertility-study-wellness

Why are they using such weird words in this article. It sounds the study is a lot of guessing.

City can ban LGBTQ+ pride flags on public property, judge says

A judge says a Detroit-area city known for welcoming immigrants did not violate the Constitution by banning LGBTQ+ flags from publicly owned flagpoles

ByThe Associated Press September 9, 2025, 7:02 PM

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. – A Detroit-area city that banned LGBTQ+ flags from publicly owned flagpoles did not violate the Constitution, a judge said.

U.S. District Judge David Lawson dismissed a lawsuit against Hamtramck, two years after the city council voted to allow only five flags, including the American flag, the Michigan flag and flags that “represent the international character” of residents. The city is known for welcoming immigrants.

A pride flag was flown in June 2021 and 2022 before some members of the all-Muslim council said it clashed with the beliefs of some members of their faith. Businesses and residents aren’t prohibited from displaying a pride flag on their own property in Hamtramck.

Critics of the new policy said Hamtramck was violating free speech. But Lawson said the city's policy was OK because it bans all private flags not just some.

“Hamtramck’s refusal to display the Gay Pride flag did not violate the Constitution,” the judge said Monday.

Hamtramck, population 27,000, is an enclave surrounded by Detroit. More than 40% of residents were born in other countries, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and a significant share are of Yemeni or Bangladeshi descent.

President Donald Trump has nominated the city's mayor, Amer Ghalib, a native of Yemen, to be U.S. ambassador to Kuwait.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/detroit-area-city-ban-lgbtq-pride-flags-public-125418391

Saggezza Eterna

@FinalTelegraph

In every decaying empire, there is a class of court eunuchs whose job is not to report the truth, but to protect the sensitivities of the ruling class. They are the narrative janitors, the palace guards of a corrupt regime. Brian Stelter is the chief eunuch of the American legacy media. (Note: Eunuch means a man who has been castrated)

His latest hysterical outburst over the murder of Iryna Zarutska is not a defense of civility; it is a panicked attempt to clean up a politically inconvenient crime scene. This thread is the dissection of a propagandist.

10:10 AM · Sep 9, 2025

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https://x.com/FinalTelegraph/status/1965417617218212262

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He and CNN should be sued for all the lies he said, he's one evil shitty turd, and should be flushed down the toilet.

He's gay so he doesn't care if an innocent woman is killed, by an insane black man.

CNN never fails to mention white whenever the killer is white.

BTW nothing he said meant anything and is not rational or logical.

I think we should get a public vote to tell CNN to get rid of this fucking creep. Millions in American would sign it.

https://x.com/theallinpod/status/1965215053122289955

Chief Nerd

@TheChiefNerd

CUBAN: “Half my family is Ukrainian … I think we should help.”

TUCKER: “How much money have you sent to Ukraine?”

CUBAN: “None.”

TUCKER: “If you think we need to help, why don't you start?”

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https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1965219671411712089

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This was funny, Cuban is stooge and hypocrite

Jason Cohen 🇺🇸

@JasonJournoDC

🚨NEW: Dominican New Yorker tells Don Lemon she SUPPORTS Trump sending National Guard in NYC🚨

"I think it's good."

(Someone should go up to Lemon and ask him, why are you so afraid of the National Guard?)

@DailyCaller

9:38 AM · Sep 8, 2025

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https://x.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1965047131930329361

Don't these evil ones, look like Ghouls, especially Clinton and old asshole Joe.

Kamala Comes Out Swinging At Team Biden In New Book

REAGAN REESEWHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT

September 10, 202511:15 AM ET

Former Vice President Kamala Harris published the first excerpt of her new book Wednesday and took some major shots at the Biden White House. (YEP it is exactly what we thought, it’s about whining and blaming Joe and staff of undermining her, and blaming others for her obvious stupidity, that is why the crybaby couldn’t accomplish anything!)

Harris’ book, “107 Days,” is set to publish toward the end of September and detail her short time on presidential campaign trail. The former vice president published an excerpt of the book in The Atlantic, in which she blames the Biden press team for failing to successfully highlight her work as “border czar” and for stunting her success in office.

“They had a huge comms team; they had Karine Jean-Pierre briefing in the pressroom every day. But getting anything positive said about my work or any defense against untrue attacks was almost impossible,” Harris’ excerpt reads.

The former vice president goes on to give an example from 2021 in which she visited the Élysée Palace to help strengthen the country’s relationship with France after the administration signed the Australia-U.K.-U.S. security pact.

She met with French President Emmanuel Macron and also visited the Pasteur Institute, where Harris’ mother had engaged in mRNA research connected to breast cancer, the excerpt says. During that visit, Harris details how she was speaking “informally” with scientists about how she wished politicians would better follow “the scientific method.”

“[T]esting a hypothesis and adjusting according to results, rather than coming in with the Plan, as if they had all the answers up front,” she writes.

“I said ‘the Plan’ with exaggerated emphasis and air quotes. Fox News, the New York Post, and Newsmax went wild, claiming I’d faked a French accent. This was total nonsense,but the White House seemed glad to let reporting about my ‘gaffe’ overwhelm the significant thaw in foreign relations I’d achieved,” the former vice president writes.

Harris then goes on to say she learned that former President Joe Biden’s staff was “adding fuel to negative narratives that sprang up around me.”

“Worse, I often learned that the president’s staff was adding fuel to negative narratives that sprang up around me.One narrative that took a stubborn hold was that I had a ‘chaotic’ office and unusually high staff turnover during my first year,” she added. (that wasn’t a narrative, her leaving staff told the story for months).

In her first two years in the White House, Harris suffered from a number of staffers leaving her office, Politico reported, adding that many staffers alleged the atmosphere was filled with incompetence and toxicity.Harris had a 91.5% turnover rate on staff in her first three years, according to OpenTheBooks in July 2024.

The former vice president pushes back on these stories in her book, blaming the Biden White House for allowing, and in some cases promoting, these narratives.

“Because of this constant attention, things that had never been especially newsworthy about the vice president were suddenly reported and scrutinized,” Harris wrote of being the first vice president to have a “press pool” tracking her every move. (What exactly was noteworthy of the VP, why didn’t she use first person tense?She wrote the book in the third person, so that means someone else wrote it.)

https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/10/kamala-harris-joe-biden-book-white-house-border-czar-sabotage/

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“And when the stories were unfair or inaccurate, the president’s inner circle seemed fine with it. Indeed, it seemed as if they decided I should be knocked down a little bit more,” she wrote.

Harris also frequently came under fire for her handling of the border crisis during the Biden administration.Biden assigned Harris the role of tackling the migration crisis coming from Mexico and the Northern Triangle in March 2021. At least one reporter soon after dubbed the former vice president the “border czar.” (Man she is crying about things no one cares to remember.)

The former vice president conducted multiple roundtables and bilateral meetings with leaders from those countries within the “northern triangle,” but only visited the border once prior to hitting the campaign trail. But the border crisis continued.

“When Republicans mischaracterized my role as ‘border czar,’ no one in the White House comms team helped me to effectively push back and explain what I had really been tasked to do, nor to highlight any of the progress I had achieved,” Harris writes. “I won commitments of $5.2 billion in new investments by private companies for the region. I had already seen almost a billion dollars of that money deployed, thanks to enthusiastic partners such as Mastercard, Microsoft, and Nespresso.”

“Instead, I shouldered the blame for the porous border, an issue that had proved intractable for Democratic and Republican administrations alike. Even the breathtaking cruelty of Trump’s family-separation policy hadn’t deterred the desperate. It was an issue that absolutely demanded bipartisan cooperation at an impossibly partisan, most uncooperative time,” she added.

Harris also points to public remarks she gave in Selma, Alabama, while Biden’s polls suffered, and took an even bigger hit because of his support for Israel following Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack.

“I reiterated my strong support for Israel’s security and called on Hamas to release the hostages and accept the cease-fire agreement then on the table,” Harris says of her remarks. “I also called on Israel for greater access to aid.”

“It was a speech that had been vetted and approved by the White House and the National Security Council. It went viral, and the West Wing was displeased. I was castigated for, apparently, delivering it too well,” she adds.

The excerpt concludes with Harris boiling down all of these excerpts to one conclusion: the Biden White House did not want her to succeed.

“Their thinking was zero-sum: If she’s shining, he’s dimmed. None of them grasped that if I did well, he did well. That given the concerns about his age, my visible success as his vice president was vital. It would serve as a testament to his judgment in choosing me and reassurance that if something happened, the country was in good hands,” she wrote. “My success was important for him. His team didn’t get it.”

https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/10/kamala-harris-joe-biden-book-white-house-border-czar-sabotage/

(Ok so her accomplishments were a few clips that meant nothing to politics, and better policy on anything. She was there for 4 years and that's all she can remember that was good. Too bad, I bet the rest of the book is how she tried to negotiate world peace. And she didn't do a damn thing to close the border, she just visited it, to her that was a splendid achievement.)

Charlotte City Council Had Literal ‘Let Them Eat Cake’ Moment After Iryna Zarutska Murder

DAILY CALLER September 10, 202511:57 AM ET

Charlotte’s City Council paused its Sept. 2 meeting for birthday cakejust before a scheduled transit-safety briefing sparked by the Aug. 22 killing of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on the LYNX Blue Line.

The cake break — a recognition of council birthdays — lasted about 10 minutes before members launched into the safety presentation, according to the meeting video. The safety discussion then ran roughly two hours.

“Do we need a short break to get cake? No?”Mayor Vi Alexander Lyles asked the council between bursts of laughter. “Nobody wants cake right now.”

“They are indeed taking a break for cake. The CATS safety briefing will have to wait a little longer,” WSOC-TV city hall reporter Joe Bruno posted from the chamber Sept. 2.

Bruno also shared a photo of the dessert as staff sliced it on a table in the meeting room.

The briefing followed Zarutska’s fatal stabbing on the Blue Line near South End on Aug. 22, which Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police say they are investigating as a homicide. CMPD identified the victim and announced an arrest shortly after the killing; the suspect, Decarlos Brown, 34, was charged with murder at the state level.

City video shows the council reconvened after the cake and proceeded to the Charlotte Area Transit System update and a lengthy discussion on public safety. Officials also held a special Metropolitan Transit Commission meeting on transit safety the next morning.

https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/10/charlotte-north-carolina-city-council-cake-vi-alexander-lyles-iryna-zarutska-murder/

City Council Committee Wrap-Up Meeting - September 2, 2025

3:57:33

https://www.youtu.be/T9OEUcUQNNs

‘Literally Blown To Bits’: JD Vance Issues Warning To Drug Cartels ‘Trying To Kill Our Citizens’

JASON COHEN September 10, 20259:20 AM ET

Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday warned drug cartels that they could be obliterated after the U.S. struck narco-trafficking terrorists in the Caribbean Sea.

President Donald Trump announced on Sept. 2 that America hit and sank a vessel belonging to the Venezuelan drug cartel Tren de Aragua, killing 11 members, with Vance vigorously defending the attack.On One America News Network’s “The Matt Gaetz Show,” host Matt Gaetz asked Vance what he believed “the rules of engagement should be when the United States military has the ability to kill someone bringing drugs into America.”

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“Matt, I think the rules of engagement should be similar to what they are in war because we are in fact in a war against these drug cartels,” Vance said. “And I understand the concerns about due process. I understand some of the criticisms that have been raised, but this is not a situation where we can send the Navy SEALs into these places, arrest them and give them a proper civil trial or criminal trial.”

“These people are engaged in criminal terrorist organizations. Sometimes they have the backing of organizations that are more powerful than the governments that exist in these countries,” he continued.“And our attitude is very simple: that if you’re engaged in war against the American people, you are at risk of having your entire operation literally blown to bits… If you’re trying to kill our citizens, if you’re engaged in these criminal cartels, we’re going to treat you like a foreign enemy of the United States because that’s exactly what you are.”

Vance also clashed with liberal commentator Brian Krassenstein on X Saturday after Krassenstein accused the Trump administration of committing “a war crime” after the Sept. 2 strike.

“I don’t give a shit what you call it,” the vice president retorted.

Trump classified certain Latin American gangs as terrorist organizations in August and subsequently authorized the U.S. military to strike them.

Moreover, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in Mexico City on Sept. 3 that strikes similar to the operation would occur in the future, according to The Washington Post.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also posted a video on X Tuesday of the U.S. Coast Guard incinerating another narco boat.

https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/10/jd-vance-issues-stern-warning-to-cartels/

'Literally Blown To Bits': JD Vance Issues Warning To Drug Cartels About Harming Americans

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(On rumble theembed linkis what plays,don't use share link, it doesn't play the video.)