The acute effects of cannabis with Will Lawn

<p>Rob talks to Dr Will Lawn about his research into the acute effects of cannabis on young people and adults. Will talks about setting up a study looking at young people and adults’ experiences of using cannabis with different levels of cannabidiol. He talks about the challenges of blinding participants to different types of cannabis; about how to manage the placebo effect when participants can become quickly aware of whether they have or have not had cannabis and the challenges of running a trial involving a controlled drug.</p><br><p>He discusses the study’s findings that suggest that teenagers respond similarly to adults in the acute stages of cannabis use and experience the same short-term harms as adults.</p><br><p>He also talks about the importance of selecting the best episode of The Simpsons for an academic study.</p><p><br></p><blockquote><em>“In the last four to five years there’s been a swing towards thinking CBD doesn’t really moderate the impact of THC at these kind of 1 to 30mg dose levels”</em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>Dr Will Lawn is a Lecturer at King’s College London Psychology Department</p><br><p>Original article: ‘<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/add.16154" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The acute effects of cannabis with and without cannabidiol in adults and adolescents: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover experiment by Will Lawn and colleagues</a>. Published in <em>Addiction</em> (2023)&nbsp;</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>