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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Forensic Psychology

Background:

  • Increasing global acceptance and use of cannabis necessitate understanding its impact on memory.
  • Cannabis use by eyewitnesses and suspects in legal cases highlights the need for memory research.
  • Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the primary psychoactive component of cannabis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the acute and delayed effects of THC intoxication on false memory susceptibility.
  • To investigate how cannabis influences memory encoding and retrieval processes.
  • To assess the implications for interviewing witnesses and suspects in legal contexts.

Main Methods:

  • A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial involving 64 healthy volunteers.
  • Administration of THC and placebo, followed by memory testing immediately and one week later.
  • Utilized associative word lists and two virtual reality misinformation tasks (eyewitness and perpetrator scenarios).

Main Results:

  • Participants intoxicated with THC exhibited significantly higher false recognition rates compared to controls.
  • False memory effects were observed both immediately after intoxication and during delayed testing.
  • Increased susceptibility to misinformation was evident in virtual reality scenarios under THC influence.

Conclusions:

  • Cannabis intoxication, particularly THC, enhances proneness to developing false memories.
  • The strength of false memory effects correlated with the decreasing association between studied and test items.
  • Findings suggest caution in timing police interviews with cannabis-using suspects and eyewitnesses.