And just a few more hits could easily bring THC levels in line with the "high" dose.Īs Christopher Ingraham of the Washington Post notes, The Cannabist has calculated the amount of THC people get from an average joint. In other words, a few hits of a joint or bowl is enough to hit the low dose. "The doses used in the study produce effects that are equivalent to only a few puffs of a cannabis cigarette," Childs said. Physical stress markers like heart rate, blood pressure, and hormone levels were equal for all groups. Those differences, however, were just in how people perceived the events. But people on the high doses paused more in the job interview and reported the tasks to be stressful, challenging, and threatening. People on the low dose reported being more relaxed than those on the placebo, and their stress levels dissipated more quickly after the tasks. "We found that THC at low doses reduced stress, while higher doses had the opposite effect," Emma Childs, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an author of the study, said in a press release. Two hours after taking their dose, they had to engage in a stressful task. In the first visit, they prepared for and participated in a mock job interview while being videotaped, then were given a five-digit number and asked to repeatedly subtract 13. On the next visit, they were asked to talk about a favorite book or movie, then play solitaire. They split them into three groups, giving either a low dose (7.5 milligrams of THC, the cannabinoid in marijuana that's mostly responsible for the high), high dose (12.5 mg), or placebo dose.įILE PHOTO - People smoke marijuana on the informal cannabis holiday, 4/20, in Boston Marijuana is dose dependent - the more someone uses, the stronger the effects. To figure out the ideal quantity for promoting relaxation, the researchers selected 42 volunteers between the ages of 18 and 40, all of whom were familiar with cannabis but not daily users. The study investigates the amount of cannabis that can push someone from relaxed to anxious, and suggests that the quantity that helps people relax is actually pretty small. Knowing how much is too much can be hard, and a new study published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence shows just how easy it is to overshoot the target. So what gives? The simple answer is that feelings of panic probably mean someone has had too much - especially if they pulled a Maureen Dowd and ate an edible without knowing what they were getting into. Yet many people are also familiar with the marijuana freak-out, or have seen a paranoid friend disappear from a party because they "just can't handle it, it's too much, man." On the one hand, nearly half of cannabis users say that their goal is to relax. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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