Cannabiserlebnisse Wuppertaler Schüler

Abstract

705 Wuppertal School children were requested to give information upon their drug experience by using a standardized questionnaire. 46 school children reported to have taken cannabis. The information given by these children upon their first cannabis experience, cannabis experience after repeated use, their behaviour after taking cannabis, changes in mood and personality due to cannabis use, and the effect of cannabis use on sexuality, showed extreme individual variations, e.g. extremely positive and negative experiences.

The results show that individually extremely varying effects of cannabis can also be observed in such a small homogeneous group of subjects as Wuppertal school children. In general, the cannabis effects experienced by the Wuppertal school children were similar to those experienced by the young people in Berlin. However, some differences were observed: The “strong feeling of hunger” and “thirst” which were reported by the young people in Berlin as typical cannabis effects, were absent in the Wuppertal school children.