The non-medical use of drugs : interim report.

  • Canada. Commission of Inquiry into the Non-medical Use of Drugs.
Date:
1971
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    sent apethods of aus Scontrole and to assess control system. lll — Drug Effects on Human Behaviour Mention has been made of a proposed study by the Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario of effects of administration of can- nabis on humans. The study is being planned in three phases ac physiological effects of cannabis; social behaviour under chronic use; micro methods for detection of cannabis in human tissues. Marijuana studies on humans are listed by the United States N.I.M.H. Center for Studies on Narcotics and Drug Abuse (C.N.D.A.). The following are among the projects which have been approved in the United States; studies of cannabis effects on per- ceptual and cognitive functioning; time sense, self-concept, deper- sonalization during THC intoxication; mechanism of action of marijuana including biological and behavioural aspects; mechanism of conditioning and drug action of marijuana; study of effects of marijuana (crude) in human volunteers on various psychological and physiological inputs; clinical research employing EEG profile analysis in humans under the influence of THC, and Synhexyl*; study of marijuana users’ reports of their experiences while under the influence of the drug. Two United States research projects deal with the effects of mari- juana on driving and attention. IV — Drug Effects on Animal Behaviour and Metabolism Five Canadian investigators have received authorization from the F.D.D. to acquire marijuana or THC for animal research; two at the Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario, and one each at the Departments of Pharmacology at Dalhousie University and Ottawa University, and one at a Montreal private research laboratory. Similar studies on the neuropharmacology of central nervous — system stimulating agents, including THCs, are proceeding at the University School of Medicine, Nashville. At the University of Rochester, a study of specific behavioural processes which are re- lated to the neuropharmacological actions of THC isomers (added to cigarettes) in monkeys is continuing. Research is being carried out at the University of Oregon on the behavioural effects resulting from the administration of cannabis, THC and other psychotropic drugs. Various branches of the National Institute of Mental Health are