A woman in Ohio is fighting for custody of her baby after a judge removed the child from her home because she drank tea brewed with marijuana. She drank the tea for medical purposes and the psychoactive parts of the plant were removed, but the judge still believed this was an endangerment to the newborn. Ana Kasparian (The Point) and John Iadarola (Think Tank) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

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“Today Ohioans vote on whether or not they’ll follow in the footsteps of Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Alaska (plus the District of Columbia), to become the fifth state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. On top of those states, another 19 states have some form of legal exemption for medical marijuana on the books. It’s enough to make you believe that the stigma of cannabis is finally eroding—after all, if Jeb Bush can admit to doing a drug without generating much in the way of controversy, how prohibited can that drug really be?

Which is why the recent ruling by Ohio Juvenile Court Magistrate Eleanore Hilow to remove a newborn baby from the home of her mother because she used a non-psychoactive marijuana-based tea to help with pregnancy-related nausea and labor pains is such a head scratcher. Especially when you consider the decision was made contrary to advice from county social workers with knowledge of the case who’d visited the mother’s home.”