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Effects of cannabis intoxication on primary suggestibility

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Thirty-five subjects of known hypnotizability were tested for primary suggestibility in the waking state with and without marijuana intoxication. The drug caused an increase in suggestibility similar to that produced by the induction of hypnosis. The effect did not persist when subjects were retested one week later in their normal waking state.

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  1. Sean F. Kelly

    Present address: Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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  1. Psychopharmacology Laboratory, Boston University School of Medicine, 02118, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Sean F. Kelly, Seymour Fisher & Reid J. Kelly

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Kelly, S.F., Fisher, S. & Kelly, R.J. Effects of cannabis intoxication on primary suggestibility. Psychopharmacology 56, 217–219 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00431853

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