Commentary Open Access
Volume 3 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/neurobiology.3.009
Commentary: Marijuana: Conflicting Issues in the Neonatal Period
Gilbert I. Martin1,2*
- 1Professor of Pediatrics, Loma Linda’s Children’s Hospital, Loma Linda, CA, United States
- 2Director Emeritus- NICU, Emanate Health Queen of the Valley Campus, 1115 South Sunset Ave., West Covina, CA, United States
Corresponding Author
Gilbert I. Martin, gimartinmd@yahoo.com
Received Date: July 14, 2020
Accepted Date: August 21, 2020
Martin GI. Commentary: Marijuana: Conflicting Issues in the Neonatal Period. J Neurobiol Physiol 2021; 3(1):1.
Copyright: © 2021 Martin GI. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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