{"id":5203,"date":"2025-11-19T15:57:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wrwofficial.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/19\/california-sober-researchers-test-marijuana-for-curbing-drinking-shots\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:57:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:57:46","slug":"california-sober-researchers-test-marijuana-for-curbing-drinking-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrwofficial.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/19\/california-sober-researchers-test-marijuana-for-curbing-drinking-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"California sober? Researchers test marijuana for curbing drinking : Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Could smoking pot lead people to drink less alcohol?<\/p>\n

In an elaborate and provocative experiment, scientists doled out joints and free drinks to see whether this idea \u2014 sometimes described as “California sober” \u2014 survived scientific scrutiny.<\/p>\n

The new research offers some of the strongest data yet suggesting that smoking weed does, at least in the short term, curb how much people drink.<\/p>\n

The findings were published<\/a> in the American Journal of Psychiatry <\/em>on Wednesday \u2014 and are sure to raise questions about the merits of swapping one of these substances for another, especially given growing concern in the public health field about the popularity of cannabis.<\/p>\n