The Effects of Marijuana on Orientation and Motor Coordination and Brain Metabolism in Regular Smokers of Marijuana
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2005-12-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
This study investigates the effects of 17mg and 13mg Delta THC on orientation and motor
coordination and brain metabolic activity in regular users of marijuana. Subjects were tested
twice, after smoking cigarettes with marijuana and after smoking cigarettes without
marijuana.On both occasions they performed on a virtual reality maze task. They were
afterwards scanned in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) with Fluoro-deoxy-glucose (FDG).