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  • Title: Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol content and human marijuana self-administration.
    Author: Chait LD.
    Journal: Psychopharmacology (Berl); 1989; 98(1):51-5. PubMed ID: 2543018.
    Abstract:
    The role of marijuana delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content in controlling marijuana smoking behavior was examined in ten regular marijuana smokers. Each subject was allowed to self-administer marijuana of low, medium or high THC content freely over a 30-min period. Each potency of marijuana was color coded, and subjects smoked each potency on five separate occasions to provide the opportunity for them to learn from prior exposures the relative potencies of each marijuana type. Total intake of marijuana smoke during each session was estimated by measuring the post-smoking increase in expired air carbon monoxide (CO) level. Measures of marijuana effect included heart rate and standardized subjective effects scales. There were no differences among the three potencies of marijuana in post-smoking CO boost, and all measures that were sensitive to marijuana showed a clear dose response. Tolerance was observed over the course of the study to the heart-rate increasing effect of marijuana. These results indicate that subjects failed to regulate their intake of marijuana smoke in response to substantial (4-fold) changes in marijuana THC content.
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