Vice featured UBC research that discovered how THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, makes rats less likely to exert the cognitive effort required for tough tasks.
“What’s interesting, however, is that their ability to do the difficult challenge was unaffected by THC. The rats could still do the task—they just didn’t want to,” said lead author Mason Silveira, a PhD candidate at UBC’s department of psychology.
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