Marijuana Smoking - Psychology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Effectiveness of a marijuana expectancy manipulation: Piloting the balanced-placebo design for marijuana.

30 Jul 2009 Although alcohol and nicotine administration studies have demonstrated that manipulating subjects' expectancies regarding drug content affects drug response, research with marijuana has not adequately studied drug expectancy effects. The present ... Read more...

Anxious arousal and anhedonic depression symptoms and the frequency of current marijuana use: testing the mediating role of marijuana-use coping motives among active users.

29 Jun 2009 OBJECTIVE: The present investigation examined anxious arousal and anhedonic depression symptoms in relation to frequency of past-30-day marijuana use, as well as the role of marijuana-use coping motives in terms of mediating this relation. METHOD: ... Read more...

The role of temperament in the relationship between early onset of tobacco and cannabis use: the TRAILS study.

28 May 2009 BACKGROUND: While temperamental characteristics have been related to the onset of cannabis use, it is not clear at what point(s) along the trajectory from early onset of tobacco use (EOT) to early onset of cannabis use (EOC) these characteristics ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Marijuana Smoking - Psychology'

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• Effectiveness of a marijuana expectancy manipulation: Piloting the balanced-placebo design for marijuana. 30 Jul 2009
• Anxious arousal and anhedonic depression symptoms and the frequency of current marijuana use: testing the mediating role of marijuana-use coping motives among active users. 29 Jun 2009
• The role of temperament in the relationship between early onset of tobacco and cannabis use: the TRAILS study. 28 May 2009
• Behavioral problems and the occurrence of tobacco, cannabis, and coca paste smoking in Chile: evidence based on multivariate response models for school survey data. 12 May 2009
• Comparison of subjective, pharmacokinetic, and physiological effects of marijuana smoked as joints and blunts. 12 May 2009
• A finer examination of the role that negative affect plays in the relationship between paternal alcoholism and the onset of alcohol and marijuana use. 29 Apr 2009
• Marijuana primes, marijuana expectancies, and arithmetic efficiency. 29 Apr 2009
• Associations between past alcohol, cannabis, and cocaine use and current schizotypy among first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia and non-psychiatric controls. 23 Apr 2009
• Relief-oriented use of marijuana by teens. 21 Apr 2009
• Functional consequences of marijuana use in adolescents. 3 Apr 2009
• Decision-making in long-term cocaine users: Effects of a cash monetary contingency on Gambling task performance. 3 Apr 2009
• "I couldn't say, I'm not a girl"--adolescents talk about gender and marijuana use. Apr 2009
• Actions of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in cannabis: relation to use, abuse, dependence. 30 Mar 2009
• The interactive effect of anxiety sensitivity and frequency of marijuana use in terms of anxious responding to bodily sensations among youth. 8 Mar 2009
• Neurobehavior disinhibition, parental substance use disorder, neighborhood quality and development of cannabis use disorder in boys. 3 Mar 2009
• It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it: a qualitative study of advice for young cannabis users. 27 Feb 2009
• Development and preliminary validation of a comprehensive marijuana motives questionnaire. 27 Feb 2009
• Relations between anxiety sensitivity, distress tolerance, and fear reactivity to bodily sensations to coping and conformity marijuana use motives among young adult marijuana users. 30 Jan 2009
• "Get high with a little help from my friends": implications of the historical covariation of cannabis use and evenings out. 30 Jan 2009
• Psychopathic traits and suicidal ideation in high-school students. 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Marijuana Smoking'

Definition: Inhaling and exhaling the smoke from CANNABIS.

Descriptor UI: D008385

Alternative terms: Marijuana Smoking; Smoking, Marijuana; Marihuana Smoking; Smoking, Marihuana; Cannabis Smoking; Smoking, Cannabis; Hashish Smoking; Smoking, Hashish;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; blood; cerebrospinal fluid; drug therapy; economics; epidemiology; ethnology; genetics; history; immunology; legislation & jurisprudence; metabolism; mortality; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; therapy; trends; urine;

Tree Number: F01.145.466.753.488;

History Note: 88

Technical Notes: consider also MARIJUANA ABUSE