Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) impairs encoding but not retrieval of verbal information.
Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry October 3, 2017 Mohini Ranganathan, Rajiv Radhakrishnan, Peter H. Addy et al.
Cannabis and agonists of the brain cannabinoid receptor (CB1R) produce acute memory impairments in humans. However, the extent to which cannabinoids impair the component processes of encoding and retrieval has not been established in humans. The objective of this analysis was to determine whether the administration of Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the principal psychoactive constituent of...