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The lingering chemical makes drug testing possible long after the last puff, and it also means that weekend joints carry a low-grade marijuana haze into the next week, perhaps contributing to marijuana's so-called amotivational syndrome.
U.S. News 2009
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Fact: For twenty-five years, researchers have searched for a marijuana-induced amotivational syndrome and have failed to find it.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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Fact: For twenty-five years, researchers have searched for a marijuana-induced amotivational syndrome and have failed to find it.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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Their testimonials, which suggest that pot turns people into useless zombies eager to snort cocaine and shoot heroin, draw on two major themes in anti-marijuana propaganda: "amotivational syndrome" and the "gateway effect."
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Unlike many eastern societies that believe the psychoactive effects of marijuana produce impulsive effects, traditionally, Western culture associates marijuana use with an "introspective, meditative, non-aggressive stereotype" ([161]) or the "amotivational syndrome." ([
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