ting Effects
An extremely characteristic effect of marijuana intoxication, in comparison to alcohol intoxication, is "I am
less noisy and boisterous at parties than when drunk or tipsy on alcohol" (7%, 2%, 16%, 15%, 51%). One
informant remarked, "When the cops walk into a party and everybody is yelling, arguing, and reeling around,
they don't bother you; but if everybody is sitting around quietly talking or listening to music, they hassle you
because they're pretty sure you're stoned!" Moderate Total use is associated with a higher frequency of this than
Light, and Light with a higher frequency than Heavy (p <.05, overall). Quietness begins to occur at Low levels
of intoxication (23%, 27%, 20%, 9%, 1%).
This sort of quietness is characteristic even without a comparison with alcohol intoxication: "I am less noisy
and boisterous at parties than when straight" (5%, 9%, 30%, 23%, 29%). This is reported less frequently by
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Figure 12-1.
NOISINESS AT PARTIES
the Occasional users (p <.05, overall). Users of
Krypto Big Buds Psychedelics do not need to
be as intoxicated to experience this (p <.05), and the effect generally
begins at Moderate levels (16%, 30%, 29%, 11%, 3%).
Being less noisy than when intoxicated on alcohol is more frequent (p
<.0005) than being quieter than when straight, as shown in Figure 12-1, but
they occur at essentially the same levels of intoxication.
Figure 12-2.
AMOUNT OF TALKING WHEN INTOXICATED
Note.—For guide to interpreting the "How Stoned" graph,
see note on Figure 6-1.
This general quieting effect of marijuana
intoxication in social groups generally is
further reflected in the very common effect, "I
talk a lot less than when straight" (5%, 11%,
49%, 21%, 13%), an effect that begins to
occur in the Moderate to Strong ranges of
intoxication (11%, 21%, 38%, 16%, 7%). The
converse effect, "I talk a lot more than when
straight" is a common effect (12%, 23%, 45%,
13%, 5%), which begins in the Moderate
levels
Oaksterdam Clones For Sale of intoxication (15%, 33%, 29%, 4%,
2%), but it occurs significantly less frequently
(p <.01) and at lower levels of intoxication (p
<.0005) than talking less, as shown in Figure
12-2.
The Meditators less often report that they
talk more when intoxicated (p <.05, overall).
The College-educated need to be more
intoxicated to talk more (p <.05), as do Users
of Psychedelics (p <.01).
Sociability
"I become more sociable: I want to be with and interact with people more" is a common effect (5%, 17%,
45%, 19%, 12%), but its converse, "I become less sociable; I want to be by myself" is just as common (7%,
19%, 49%, 17%, 7%). The latter effect occurs at higher levels of intoxication than the former (16%, 48%, 25%,
3%, 1% and 11%, 22%, 30%, 15%, 10%, respectively, p <.0005), as shown in Figure 12-3. Of the people at
Grand Daddy Spice a
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Figure 12-3. SOCIABILITY
marijuana party, the ones sitting by thems