Effects of Smoked Marijuana on Risk Taking and Decision Making Tasks

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2008-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of smoked marijuana on both risk taking and decision making tasks.

• Phase: Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: New York State Psychiatric Institute
• Collaborator: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• Treatments: Dronabinol

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Current marijuana use

• 21-45 years of age

• Practicing an effective form of birth control

• Not seeking treatment for marijuana use

Exclusion Criteria:

• Current, repeated illicit drug use other than marijuana

• Presence of significant medical illness (e.g., diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension)

• Laboratory tests outside normal limits that are clinically unacceptable to the study physician (BP > 140/90; hematocrit < 34 for women, < 36 for men)

• Significant adverse reaction to marijuana

• Current parole or probation

• Pregnancy or current lactation

• Recent history of significant violent behavior

• Major current Axis I psychopathology (e.g., mood disorder with functional impairment or suicide risk, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia

• History of heart disease

• Current use of any over-the-counter or prescription medication from which the volunteer cannot be withdrawn