Personality and Attitudes of British Marijuana Users

Research comparing marijuana users and nonusers indicates that generally users are no more abnormal than nonusers but are more open-minded (4) . Two srudies (3 ) confirmed this picture with the finding that as frequency of marijuana use increases, creativity and adventuresomeness increase and authoritarianism decreases, while there is no difference in anxiety among urban undergraduates In rhe eastern United States. In this cross-cultural replication 86 male and 48 female undergraduates from a London polytechnic volunteered as subjects. In groups rhey anonymously answered the following questionnaires: the California F Scale of authoritarianism ( 1 ) and the Personal Opinion Survey (2), an empirically derived 30-item true-false scale containing four subscales, Creativity, Advenruresomeness, Discomfort (anxiety), and Alienation. For statistical analysis subjects were divided into nonusers, experimenters (those who tried marijuana but no longer used i t ) , moderate users (once a week or less), and heavy users (twice a week or more). Table 1. shows Creativity and Adventuresomeness scores increased with marijuana use. Moderate and heavy users scored lower on authoritarianism than nonusers and experimenters. There were no differences on Discomfort or Alienation. Marijuana use did not

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