Can a phone app help cannabis users beat stress and cut back?
NCT ID NCT06085222
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Sep 02, 2026 · Updated 2 times
Summary
This study tests a brief computerized and smartphone-based program designed to help regular cannabis users with Cannabis Use Disorder better handle emotional stress. The goal is to see if the intervention reduces distress intolerance and cannabis use compared to a health education program. Eighty participants will be followed for four months.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- behavioral intervention (computerized distress tolerance training with smartphone support)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could provide a low-cost, accessible tool to help people with Cannabis Use Disorder manage stress and reduce their cannabis use.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early-stage trial with only 80 participants, so results may not apply broadly. The intervention is behavioral and may not work for everyone.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 80 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jun 2024
- Expected to finish
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Jan 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 30 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Cannabis is the primary substance of abuse. * Clinical-level Distress intolerance Index score. * Current Cannabis Use Disorder diagnosis. * Near-daily to daily cannabis use in past-month and past 3 months. * Positive urine screen for THC * Detectable skin conductance level * Owns a smart phone * Primary smoked/vaporized delta-9 or delta-8 THC user Exclusion Criteria: * Presence of acute/major psychiatric disturbance * Current pregnancy * Change in psychotropic medication within the past month * Concurrently receiving treatment for cannabis use * Concurrently receiving dialectical behavior therapy or exposure-based therapy for emotional disorders * Planning to immediately quit using cannabis * EEG contraindications * Kidney disease
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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The BRAINS Lab at Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida, 32306-4301, United States
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