NCT00270803

The Effects of Marijuana on Orientation and Motor Coordination and Brain Metabolism in Regular Smokers of Marijuana

The Effects of Marijuana on Orientation and Motor Coordination and Brain Metabolism in Regular Smokers of Marijuana.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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).

Detailed description

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). 12 subjects were tested so far on both conditions.

Conditions

• Marijuana Dependence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Tetra Hydro Cannabinol (THC)	Oral THC 13mg and 17mg smoked in low nicotine cigarettes

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-07-01
• Primary completion: 2005-12-01
• Completion: 2005-12-01
• First posted: 2005-12-28
• Last updated: 2008-05-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel