THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, makes rats less willing to exert cognitive effort – lazy – but, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man
The main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana makes lab rats lazy, according to University of British Columbia researchers.
The new research, published on Tuesday in the Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, looked at the effects of both THC – the drug’s main active ingredient – and the non-psychoactive compound cannabidiol, or CBD, on the male lab rats’ willingness to exert cognitive effort.
Researchers trained 29 rats on two different challenges: rats which successfully carried out the more difficult task earned two sugar pellets; those which carried out the easier task earned just one.
Rats usually preferred the harder, but more rewarding, task. But after being dosed with THC, the same rats picked the easier task.
CBD, which does not cause a high and is believed to have medicinal benefits such as relieving pain and the symptoms of epilepsy, had no impact on the rats’ cognitive behaviour. It also did not mitigate the cognitive impact of THC in the rats.
read more: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/23/marijuana-rats-lazy-thc-researchers
hehe they are just chilling man... who wants to chase some cheese while enjoying a joint! lol
I understand that they have to be able to control the experiment but really they used lab rats there are centuries worth of stoners that you could have monitored and received the same conclusion lol!
I dont think they need rats. Take any pothead and study there couchpotato time vs a non user.