An exploratory follow-up study of cannabis use and decision-making under various risk conditions within adolescence.

Objective: Studies examining the associations between decision-making (DM) and cannabis use (CU) often use cross-sectional, adult samples, and composite scores or single tasks to assess DM. The present study explored differential associations between tasks assessing DM under various risk conditions (i.e.

Risky decision-making as an antecedent or consequence of adolescent cannabis use: findings from a 2-year longitudinal study.

Background And Aims: Although poor decision-making (DM) has been correlated with problematic cannabis use (CU), cross-sectional designs make it difficult to determine whether poor DM represents an antecedent and/or consequence of CU. The current study measured bidirectional associations between CU and DM among adolescents over 2 years and compared these findings to those observed with episodic memory, which is consistently reported as a consequence of CU. We also measured the role of DM as a risk factor for cannabis use disorder (CUD) onset.

Nonacute effects of cannabis use on motivation and reward sensitivity in humans: A systematic review.

Reduced motivation is often noted as a consequence of cannabis use. However, prior studies examining this association have suboptimally operationalized motivation and have yielded mixed findings. This review discusses motivation and the closely related construct of reward sensitivity.