{"id":36663,"date":"2025-11-19T04:01:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=36663"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:22:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:22:57","slug":"smoking-weed-could-lead-to-less-drinking-new-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=36663","title":{"rendered":"Smoking Weed Could Lead to Less Drinking, New Study Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a makeshift bar on a college campus, researchers studied how smoking cannabis affected alcohol consumption.<\/p>\n

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Countless college students have conducted the experiment: What happens when you mix alcohol and cannabis?<\/p>\n

But few have done so in a lab, under the watchful eye of scientists, carefully calibrating their breathing as they take hits of research-grade marijuana.<\/p>\n

In a new study,<\/a> investigators corralled around 150 adults into a makeshift bar on campus at Brown University in order to test how much people wanted to drink after they smoked cannabis. It is one of the first rigorous trials to examine how marijuana affects drinking.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is basically a very carefully, precisely designed study of cross-fading,\u201d said Dr. James MacKillop, the director of the Michael G. DeGroote Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at McMaster University and an author on the study. (Cross-fading means getting simultaneously drunk and high.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The researchers found that people drank considerably less after they smoked cannabis.<\/p>\n

The new paper, published Wednesday, arrives at a time when going \u201cCalifornia sober\u201d<\/a> \u2014 using marijuana and other drugs, but not alcohol \u2014 has become trendy. Researchers attribute its popularity to the growing legalization and availability of cannabis in an array of forms, including prepackaged edibles and beverages<\/a>, as well as a rising awareness about the health harms of alcohol<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe too often study drugs in isolation,\u201d said Ryan Vandrey, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins Medicine, who studies cannabis and was not involved with the new research. But in reality, he said, people commonly combine alcohol and cannabis.<\/p>\n

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In a makeshift bar on a college campus, researchers studied how smoking cannabis affected alcohol consumption.Countless college students have conducted the experiment: What happens when you mix alcohol and cannabis?But few have done so in a lab, under the watchful eye of scientists, carefully calibrating their breathing as they take hits of research-grade marijuana.In a new study, investigators corralled around 150 adults into a makeshift bar on campus at Brown University in order to test how much people wanted to drink after they smoked cannabis. It is one of the first rigorous trials to examine how marijuana affects drinking.\u201cThis is basically a very carefully, precisely designed study of cross-fading,\u201d said Dr. James MacKillop, the director of the Michael G. DeGroote Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at McMaster University and an author on the study. (Cross-fading means getting simultaneously drunk and high.)The researchers found that people drank considerably less after they smoked cannabis.The new paper, published Wednesday, arrives at a time when going \u201cCalifornia sober\u201d \u2014 using marijuana and other drugs, but not alcohol \u2014 has become trendy. Researchers attribute its popularity to the growing legalization and availability of cannabis in an array of forms, including prepackaged edibles and beverages, as well as a rising awareness about the health harms of alcohol.\u201cWe too often study drugs in isolation,\u201d said Ryan Vandrey, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins Medicine, who studies cannabis and was not involved with the new research. But in reality, he said, people commonly combine alcohol and cannabis.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36665,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36666,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36663\/revisions\/36666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}