Smoking Cannabis 'Dampens Motivation in the Short Term'
Smoking just one cannabis cigarette makes people less willing to work for money while under the influence of the drug, according to a study published in the journal Psychopharmacology. The study found that long-term users experience no loss of motivation.
The researchers, from University College London, say this is the first study to reliably demonstrate the short-term effects of cannabis on motivation. However, the paper has been criticised (see our expert analysis below).
Long-term cannabis addicts (who were not high at the time) were also tested, and it was found that their motivation levels were no different to volunteers in the control group.
During the study 57 volunteers were asked to complete a task, which, if performed successfully, would earn them real money. Prior to the task, participants inhaled either cannabis vapour or cannabis-placebo vapour.
In each trial, volunteers could choose between low- or high-effort tasks to win varying sums of...
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