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Major Studies of Drugs and Drug Policy | ||||
Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs | ||||
Volume I - General Orientation |
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Chapter 7 - Cannabis: Effects and ConsequencesBehavioural and social consequences
The
main behavioural and social consequences examined in scientific literature deal
with social and family adjustment, aggression, and the ability to perform
complex tasks. Social and family adjustment
According
to some studies, chronic cannabis use could have consequences for social and
family adjustment. Thus chronic users would have more difficulty keeping a job,
would be unemployed more often and would have more interpersonal adjustment
problems.[1][69] However,
most of these studies suffer from methodological problems and interpretation
difficulties. Most studies involve samples of people who, by and large, come
from underprivileged socio-economic backgrounds. Above all, beyond the
statistical association, it is difficult to determine to what extent other
factors play a preponderant role, of which cannabis is itself a symptom and not
a cause. Aggression
Unlike
other psychoactive substances, alcohol and cocaine in particular, cannabis does
not lead to aggression. When examining withdrawal symptoms once dependence is
established, some authors note greater irritability; but this is even less
significant proportionally than that caused by tobacco. Performing complex tasks
No
study on chronic cannabis use has been able to establish that cannabis causes
long-term effects on the ability to perform complex tasks. This data is in
keeping with cannabis’ lack of neurotoxicity. |