ReviewNeurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2020
Assessing Cannabis Demand: A Comprehensive Review of the Marijuana Purchase Task.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Twenty-five years of simulated demand: A bibliometric and systematic review of hypothetical drug purchase tasks.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Pooled it
- Concurrent validity of the marijuana purchase task: a meta-analysis of trait-level cannabis demand and cannabis involvement.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Pooled it
- Gimmie the Gummies: Initial validation of the Edibles Marijuana Purchase Task.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Preliminary validation of an experimental cannabis marketplace and its psychometric properties against an established measure of cannabis demand.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2026Article
- Hypothetical food purchase tasks and eating behavior: A systematized review and future directions.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Review
- Is toke cheap? Correspondence between cannabis demand and purchase in the laboratory.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
- Decoding behavioral economics vs. traditional dose response functions in rodent intravenous drug self-administration procedures.Psychopharmacology · 2026Review
- Clinical pain intensity is associated with greater cannabis demand among people who regularly use cannabis.Pain reports · 2026Article
- Frustration brake failure hypothesis of substance use disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Hypothetical Purchase Task Metrics Predict Responding on an Incentivized Purchase Task for Full and Reduced Nicotine Cigarettes.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025Article
- Profiles of cannabis use and expense-related factors among US young adults.Addictive behaviors · 2025Article
- Using prospective mixed methods to investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on cannabis demand.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2025Article
- Current and Projected Cannabis Demand Predict Future Consumption in Young Adults Who Use Cannabis.Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2025Article
- Acute Stress Effect on Delay Discounting and Cannabis Demand Among Individuals Endorsing High-Frequency Cannabis Use.Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2025Article
- The subjective value of social context in people who use cannabis.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2024Article
- A mobile health intervention for emerging adults with regular cannabis use: A micro-randomized pilot trial design protocol.Contemporary clinical trials · 2024Article
- Utility of a brief measure of cannabis demand: Day-level associations with cannabis use.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2024Article
- Cannabis demand and use among veterans: A prospective examination.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2023Article
- Why get high? Coping and enjoyment motives mediate elevated cannabis demand and cannabis-related outcomes.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2023Article
- Behavioral economic relationship between cannabis flower and concentrates: Evidence from simulated purchase tasks.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
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Abstract
The marijuana purchase task (MPT) is a behavioral economic measure of individualized cannabis value (i.e., demand). The MPT follows purchase tasks for other substances (e.g., alcohol, tobacco), though presents with unique caveats due to its mixed illicit status, non-uniform units of purchase and use, and substantial within substance variability in strain, potency, and quality. As the regulatory climate surrounding purchase and use of cannabis continues to evolve in the USA and globally, rigorous assessment of cannabis use and value are of the utmost importance. This study represents the first comprehensive review of investigations utilizing the MPT. Searches through PubMed and Web of Science databases by two independent coders identified 15 empirical articles referencing the use of an MPT and were published through the year 2019. Articles were coded for demographic and procedural characteristics, structural characteristics of the MPT itself, data analytic characteristics, and relationships with cannabis-related outcomes. Rigorous assessment of demand for cannabis is essential with respect to the broad public health issues surrounding cannabis legalization. We have synthesized the research presented herein and comment on vital considerations for subsequent MPT work, including recommendations for a unified approach to using the MPT in subsequent research.
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