It isn’t just people — when given the chance rats may also use cannabis to cope with stress, according to a study by researchers at Washington State University. Published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, the study set out to investigate which animals would actively seek out cannabis and why. The researchers discovered that rats with naturally higher stress levels were much more likely to repeatedly self-administer the commonly used recreational drug. “We ran rats through this extensive battery of behavioral and biological tests, and what we found was that when we…
