Université de Fribourg

Weed or wheel! FMRI, behavioural, and toxicological investigations of how cannabis smoking affects skills necessary for driving

Battistella, Giovanni ; Fornari, Eleonora ; Thomas, Aurélien ; Mall, Jean-Frédéric ; Chtioui, Haithem ; Appenzeller, Monique ; Annoni, Jean-Marie ; Favrat, Bernard ; Maeder, Philippe ; Giroud, Christian

In: PLoS ONE, 2013, vol. 8, no. 1, p. e52545

Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug, however its effects on cognitive functions underling safe driving remain mostly unexplored. Our goal was to evaluate the impact of cannabis on the driving ability of occasional smokers, by investigating changes in the brain network involved in a tracking task. The subject characteristics, the percentage of Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol in the joint, and...