Self-administration behavior is maintained by the psychoactive ingredient of marijuana in squirrel monkeys
- 1 November 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Neuroscience
- Vol. 3 (11) , 1073-1074
- https://doi.org/10.1038/80577
Abstract
Many attempts to obtain reliable self-administration behavior by laboratory animals with delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, have been unsuccessful1,2,3,4,5. Because self-administration behavior has been demonstrated in laboratory animals for almost all other psychoactive drugs abused by humans6, as well as for nicotine, the psychoactive ingredient in tobacco7, these studies would seem to indicate that marijuana has less potential for abuse. Here we show persistent intravenous self-administration behavior by monkeys for doses of THC lower than doses used in previous studies, but comparable to doses in marijuana smoke inhaled by humans.Keywords
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