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CANNABIS AND REVERSE TOLERANCE: PHARMACOLOGICAL ENTITY OR PSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENON?
Author(s) -
Fox Michael N.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1973.tb76585.x
Subject(s) - drug tolerance , cannabis , psychology , drug , phenomenon , placebo response , medicine , placebo , psychiatry , alternative medicine , physics , pathology , quantum mechanics
Studies on cannabis have continually shown incompatible results. The aspect of tolerance to the drug is also unclear because of conflicting reports from experimenters working with both human and animal subjects. The common belief is that rather than the development of tolerance to the effects of the drug, there is an increased sensitivity or reverse tolerance. Recent studies indicate that there may be the development of tolerance to all but the subjective effects of the drug which may be enhanced by means of a placebo effect.