Citation

Roth WT, Tinklenberg JR, Whitaker CA, Darley CF, Kopell BS, Hollister LE. Psychopharmacology 1973; 33(3): 259-265.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1973, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF00423060

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A 5-min paced contour tracking task was performed before and after receiving brownies containing either placebo or marihuana calibrated to a δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol content of 20 mg. The error patterns of 19 young male subjects who received placebo and 18 who received marihuana were compared. After marihuana there was an increase in total errors as measured by the standard deviation (P<0.01) and the mean deviation (P<0.02) error scores. Although marihuana is reputed to create a fluctuating effect, under the conditions of this experiment the variability of error scores between successive 15-second time periods in the marihuana group was not significantly greater than in the placebo group. In addition the marihuana deficit did not show significant time trends during the task. © 1973 Springer-Verlag.

Keywords: Cannabis impaired driving

Language: en

Keywords

Adolescent; Adult; Humans; Male; Task Performance and Analysis; Tracking; Cannabis; cannabis; dronabinol; car driving; normal human; placebo; task performance; theoretical study; Motor Skills; Visual Perception; model; oral drug administration; Placebos; Driving Simulation; Marihuana