Deck 7: Marijuana, Lsd, Club Drugs

Question 1

The first LSD "trip" took place in:

A) prehistoric antiquity.
B) ancient Greece.
C) the 1800s.
D) the 1940s.
E) the 1960s.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The swiftest, most efficient, and most effective route of administration of marijuana is:

A) injecting it in an oil-based infusion.
B) smoking it.
C) eating it in a brownie.
D) drinking it brewed as a tea.
E) ingesting it in pill form.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The social characteristic that correlates most strongly with the use of marijuana is:

A) sex or gender.
B) age.
C) socioeconomic status (SES).
D) geographical residence.
E) race.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following is not considered one of the common effects of the hallucinogenic or psychedelic drugs?

A) eidetic imagery
B) synesthesia
C) the perception of a multilevel reality
D) psychotic episodes
E) seeing the world as more fluid than it is

Question 5

The use of club drugs is:

A) more widespread and common than the use of marijuana.
B) more widespread and common among persons over the age of 35 than among younger sectors of the population.
C) increasing during the 2000s faster than for any other drug or drug type.
D) a common precursor, gateway, or stepping stone to the use of heroin.
E) none of the above.

Question 6

Research has demonstrated that the use of LSD commonly causes:

A) genetic damage.
B) sensory overload.
C) psychotic episodes.
D) death by overdose.
E) physical dependence.

Question 7

Which of the following drugs discussed in this text is not included in the category of hallucinogenic/psychedelic drugs?

A) LSD
B) PCP
C) psilocybin
D) mescaline
E) DMT and DET

Question 8

Do you see a relationship between a drug's effects and its popularity-the number of people who use it as well as the frequency with which it is used? Or is a drug's popularity simply a matter of its history, supply, and other features incidental to its effects? Do you think that marijuana's effects, for example, influence how widely and frequently it is used, or are some other aspects of drug the causes of its popularity? What is it about the effects of marijuana that place it in a unique position among the available illicit substances?

Question 9

After 2000, the rate of use of club drugs:

A) increased.
B) decreased.
C) remained stable.
D) fluctuated wildly and randomly from year to year.
E) remains unknown.

Question 10

The evidence indicating that the human use of MDMA (Ecstasy) damages:

A) the brain is conclusive.
B) the liver is conclusive.
C) the lungs is conclusive.
D) blood vessels is conclusive.
E) any organ of the body is inconclusive.

Question 11

The drugs and drug types that are discussed in this chapter are included together because:

A) they tend to be used recreationally by more or less middle-class persons.
B) they are chemically closely related.
C) they are psychopharmacologically closely related-they have more or less the same effects.
D) the penalties for their possession and sale are, of all illicit drugs, the most severe.
E) they are likely to be legalized in the near future.

Question 12

Shen Nung:

A) is a pharmacist living in New York's Chinatown who currently prescribes marijuana for a variety of ailments.
B) was a Chinese emperor who lived in the third millennium B.C.E. and discovered the effects of marijuana.
C) was a nineteenth-century Chinese pharmacist who included marijuana as a curative herb in his pharmaceutical treatise.
D) was a mythological figure who was neither an actual Chinese emperor nor a writer of a pharmaceutical treatise that included marijuana as a curative herb.
E) none of the above.

Question 13

The principal psychoactive chemical in marijuana is:

A) LSD.
B) PCP.
C) MDMA.
D) THC.
E) GHB.

Question 14

The era during which marijuana's psychoactive effects were discovered and when it began to be used is:

A) the "natural" era.
B) the "transformative" era.
C) the "synthetic" era.
D) unknown.
E) none of the above.

Question 15

Between the 1990s and the year 2000, the use of club drugs:

A) increased.
B) decreased.
C) remained stable.
D) fluctuated wildly and randomly from year to year.
E) remains unknown.

Question 16

Psychopharmacologists classify ketamine as a:

A) benzodiazepine-a sedative/hypnotic.
B) narcotic.
C) dissociative anesthetic.
D) stimulant.
E) none of the above.

Question 17

No authors of texts on drug use have included marijuana in which of the following categories?

A) stimulant
B) narcotic
C) sedative
D) hallucinogen
E) Some writers have included marijuana as belonging in each of these categories.

Question 18

Psychopharmacologists classify Ecstasy (MDMA) in terms of its effects as a:

A) benzodiazepine-a sedative/hypnotic.
B) narcotic.
C) dissociative anesthetic.
D) stimulant.
E) none of the above.

Question 19

The discussion in this chapter summarizing a study on the administration of marijuana to airline pilots followed by submitting them to coordination tests 1, 4, 10, and 24 hours after the administration of marijuana found that the deteriorating effects of the drug completely disappeared after:

A) 1 hour.
B) 4 hours.
C) 10 hours.
D) 24 hours.
E) none of the above; the effects of the administration of marijuana continued to deteriorate the pilots' coordination, even after 24 hours.

Question 20

Which of the following explanations for the "progression" of users from the use of marijuana to the use of more dangerous drugs focuses on properties inherent in the drug that cause this phenomenon? The:

A) sociocultural school
B) predisposition school
C) selective interaction/socialization school
D) pharmacological school
E) none of the above

Question 21

All drugs have an "up" and a "down" side-features about their effects that both attract and repel potential users and encourage those who have tried and used them to "stick with" or discontinue using them. What are some of these features with marijuana and LSD?

Question 22

A substantial number of authors of discussions of drug use regard PCP and MDMA (Ecstasy) as hallucinogens. Why? In contrast, the author of this chapter does not. Why not? Be specific and detailed.

Question 23

The media mention club drugs such as Ecstasy, GHB, Rohypnol, and ketamine as a common and alarming cause of medical harm and even death. What does a more careful examination of the facts reveal? Cite information that indicates that club drugs are not as dangerous as the media claim.

Question 24

Render a sociological portrait of the typical, modal, or most characteristic user of marijuana.

Question 25

Summarize the "stepping-stone" or "gateway" theory of drug use, especially the role marijuana plays in it, and summarize the three principal models or schools of thought that attempt to explain this drug progression. Which seems to you to be most empirically adequate?

Question 26

Explain why LSD is rarely used on a frequent, compulsive basis.

Question 27

Is marijuana a dangerous drug? Assess the evidence on both sides of the argument.

Question 28

Do you think that the federal government and most of the states are justified in classifying most of the drugs that are discussed in this book (specifically marijuana, LSD, and Ecstasy) as Schedule I drugs? Justify your answer.

Question 29

Enumerate some of the most characteristic indicators or measures of psychosocial unconventionality, and discuss whether and how they correlate with recreational drug use, particularly marijuana use.