Marijuana intoxication

The involvement of the cerebellum in the psychoactive effects of marijuana and in changes in rCMR is consistent with the view that THC interacts with the high concentration of CB1 receptors in this brain area. Decreases in the cerebellar rCMR in habitual marijuana users may reflect the effects of chronic exposure to the drug. Functions known to be associated with the cerebellum, such as motor coordination, proprioception, and learning, are adversely affected both during acute marijuana intoxication and in habitual users. 

Mathew RJ, Wilson WH, Coleman RE, Turkington TG, DeGrado TR. Marijuana intoxication and brain activation in marijuana smokers. Life Sci 1997 60 2075-2089. 

Volkow ND, Gillespie H, Mullani N, Tancredi L, Grant C, Valentine A, Hollister L. Brain glucose-metabolism in chronic marijuana users at baseline and during marijuana intoxication. Psychiatr Res Neuroimaging 1996 67 29-38. 

Marijuana intoxication precipitates psychosis, paranoid thoughts, anxiety, and restlessness... 

Hooker WD, Jones RT. (1987). Increased susceptibility to memory intrusions and the Stroop interference effect during acute marijuana intoxication. Psychopharmacology (Berlin). 91(1) 20-24. 

CS407 Kosior, D. A., K. J. Filipiak, P. Stolarz, and G. Opolski. Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in a young female patient CS417 following marijuana intoxication—a case report of possible association. Med Sci Monit 2000 6(2) 386-389. 

Answer to Case A Bloodshot eyes and poor coordination are hallmark signs of marijuana intoxication. The driver may have finished smoking marijuana before getting into the car, explaining the absence of odor, or may have ingested the marijuana. The level of alcohol is too low to account for poor coordination and the failing of the field sobriety tests. A urine sample should be collected and tested by EMIT and, if positive for cannabinoids, confirmed by GC/MS. 

Yesavage, J.A. et al., Carry-over effects of marijuana intoxication on aircraft pilot performance a preliminary report, Am. 3. Psychiatry, 142, 1325, 1985. 

Examples of d-SoCs are the ordinary waking state, nondreaming sleep, dreaming sleep, hypnosis, alcohol intoxication, marijuana intoxication, and meditative states. 

I suspect that state-specific Memory subsystems will be discovered for many or most d-ASCs, but the necessary research has not been done. The kinds of state-specific memories may vary in completeness. The ones we know of now-from marijuana intoxication, for example-are characterized by transfer of some information to the ordinary d-SoC but nontransfer of other information, the latter often being the most essential and important aspects of the d-ASC experience. 

D-ASC 3 represents various d-ASCs in which much subconscious material might become preconscious it will not necessarily well up by itself, but it is much more readily available than ordinarily. Thus the potential for exploring the mind is greater, but effort must still be exerted. Marijuana intoxication can do this. 

The ability to see three-dimensional depth in two-dimensional pictures is an interesting phenomenon reported for marijuana intoxication 105. The technique my main informant reported is to look at a color picture through a pinhole held right at the eye, so your field of vision includes only the picture, not any other elements, if you are highly intoxicated with marijuana, the picture may suddenly become a three-dimensional scene instead of a flat, two-dimensional one. 

An excellent example comes from marijuana use. Most marijuana smokers have to learn how to achieve the d-ASC we refer to as marijuana intoxication or being stoned. Typically, the first few times a person smokes marijuana, he feels an occasional isolated effect like tingling, but the overall pattern of his consciousness stays quite ordinary and he usually wonders why others make so much fuss about a drug that has so little effect, with the assistance of more experienced drug users, who suggest he focus his attention on certain kinds of happenings or try to have certain specified kinds of experiences, additional... 

The concept of d-SoCs comes to us in commonsense form, as well as in terms of my initial research interests, from people s experiences of radically altered states of consciousness-states like drunkenness, dreaming, marijuana intoxication, certain meditative states. These represent such radical shifts in the patterning, the system properties of consciousness, that most people experiencing them are forced to notice that the state of their consciousness is quite different, even... 

For example, conducting studies that show a slight decrement in arithmetical skills under marijuana intoxication is of some interest, but since no record exists of anyone using marijuana in order to solve arithmetical problems, such studies are somewhat irrelevant. This emphasizes a point made earlier that it is generally useless to characterize any d-ASC as "better" or "worse" than any other d-SoC. 

A young marijuana smoker who hears a scientist or physician refer to these findings as the basic nature of marijuana intoxication will simply sneer and have his antiscientific attitude further reinforced, it is clear to him that the scientist has no real understanding of what marijuana intoxication is all about (see 105 for a comprehensive description of this d-ASC). 

Marijuana intoxication Reported effects on sleep. Psychophysiology, 1970, 7, 348. 

On Being Stoned A Psychological Study of Marijuana intoxication. Palo Alto, Calif. Science Behavior Books, 1971. 

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