Cannabis: Physiopathology, epidemiology, detection : From the Proceedings of the Second International Symposium, Organized by the National Academy of Medicine, with the Assistance of the City of Paris, April 8-9, 1992

CONTENTS:
I. PHYSIOPATHOLOGY
• 1. Toxicology
Gabriel Nahas : General toxicity of cannabis.
• 2. Visualization of brain alterations
Nora Volkow and Joanna Fowler: Use o f Positron Emission Tomography to study drugs of abuse.
• 3. Effects on psychomotor performance
- Von O Leirer, Jerome Yesavage and Daniel Morrow: Marihuana carry-over effects on psychomotor performance: A chronicle of research.
- Richard H. Schwartz : Chronic marihuana smoking and short-term memory impairment.
-Michel Aussedat and S. Niziolek-Reinhardt: Detection of cannabis and other drugs in 120 victims of road accidents.
- Carl A. Soderstrom, Anna Trifillis, Belavadi Shankar, William Clark and Adams Cowley: Marijuana and alcohol use among 1023 trauma patients.
• 4. Psychopathology and behavior
- Gabriel Nahas : Historical outlook of the psychopathology of cannabis.
- Taieb Chkili and J.E. Ktiouet: Prospective study o f 104 psychiatric cases associated with cannabis use in a Moroccan medical center.
- Juan C. Negrete : Effects of cannabis on schizophrenia.
- Peter Allebeck : Schizophrenia and cannabis : cause-effect relationship?
- Bernard Defer: Schizophrenia and cannabis. How causal a relationship?
- Jovan Rajs, Anna Fugelstad and John Jonsson : Cannabis-associated deaths in medico-legal postmortem studies. Preliminary report.
• 5. Effects on immune function and carcinogenesis
- Guy Cabral and R. Vasquez : Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol suppresses macrophage extrinsic anti-herpes virus activity.
- Jonathan Buckley : A case-control study o f acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia - Evidence for an association with marihuana exposure.
- Paul J. Donald: Marihuana and upper aerodigestive tract malignancy in young patients.
• 6. Effects on reproductive function
Herbert Tuchmann-Duplessis : Effects of cannabis on reproduction.
II. EPIDEMIOLOGY
- Mitchell Rosenthal : Report from North America.
- Raul Jeri : Medical aspects o f cannabis abuse in Latin America.
- Peter Allebeck : Trends and policies regarding cannabis and other narcotics in Sweden.
- Lionel Gaillaud : Cannabis consumption in the French population (12 to 44 years age) in 1992.
- Denise Kandel, Israel Adler and Myriam Sudit : The epidemiology of adolescent drug use in France and Israel.
- Richard H. Schwartz : Drug reform: The Dutch experience.
- Karel F. Gunning: The Dutch drug policy: A physician's commentary.
- Georges Lagier and Jean Michaud: Cannabis and the law.
- Juhana Idanpaan-Heikkila : Cannabis : Point o f view of W.H.O.
III. DETECTION, IDENTIFICATION AND TESTING
• 1. Identification and detection
- Pierre Levillain : Identification and measurement of cannabinoids and their metabolites in biological fluids.
- Paul Lafargue: Detection of illegal drugs in body fluids and interpretation of results.
- David B. Menkes, Richard Howerd, George Spears and Eric Cairns: Salivary THC following cannabis smoking correlates with subjective intoxication and heart rate.
• 2. Testing
- Peter Bensinger : Testing for illicit drugs in the workplace.
- Richard H. Schwartz : Screening students for cannabis.
- Paul Mulloy : Testing for drugs in the military and transportation industry.
- Pierre Juillet : Drug use and drug detection in the French armed forces.
General Conclusions - Henri Baylon
• Appendix:
- Hélène Peters : Hashish and mental illness. The experience and observations o f Moreau.
- Peter Waser : Effects of THC on brain and social organization of ants.
- William D. Paton : Drug use and the lognormal distribution.
- Gabriel G. Nahas, Renaud Trouvé and Colette Latour : The distribution of consumption of marihuana and alcohol.
- Just Say Now: The London Times, July 24, 1992.
- Nils Bejerot : The Swedish addiction epidemic in global perspective.