Chilean mom restricted access to baby for smoking marijuana

By EVA VERGARA and LUIS ANDRES HENAO
Associated Press

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) – A Chilean mother says a hospital is restricting her right to see her newborn daughter because she acknowledged smoking marijuana days before she gave birth.

Sindy Melany Ortiz said that during labor she told hospital officials that she had smoked pot to alleviate pain in one of her arms that had been broken.

Six hours after her daughter Luciana was born on Nov. 19, a social worker and a psychologist told her that…