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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 2.
Published in final edited form as: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2007 Jul 10;194(4):505–515. doi: 10.1007/s00213-007-0861-5

Table 3.

Percent blockade (95% confidence interval) of peak cannabis effect by oral rimonabant in 22 adult male subjects who smoked an active cannabis (2.78% THC) cigarette on day 8 or 15 (n = 11 for each dose group)

Pharmacodynamic measure Day 15
Day 8
40 mg daily for 15 days 90 mg (day 15 only) 40 mg daily for 8 days
ΔHeart rate 65.6
(36.3, 100)
64.3
(35.1, 98.9)
75.7
(35.7, 124)
VAS composite 14.3
(−26.3, 57.3)
29.4
(−10.6, 74.4)
19.2
(3.1, 35.7)
M-scale 23.6
(−30.8, 85.8)
23.6
(−30.8, 85.8)
30.3
(2.2, 60.0)

ΔHeart Rate Change from baseline (before rimonabant dosing); VAS composite mean of scores on three 100-mm visual analog scales for "How high do you feel now?", "How strong is the drug effect you feel now?" and "How stoned on marijuana are you now?"; M-scale marijuana subscale of Addiction Research Center Inventory