{"id":230300,"date":"2026-02-01T13:09:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/detection-of-thc-impairment-using-functional-near-infrared-spectroscopy"},"modified":"2026-02-01T13:09:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:09:45","slug":"detection-of-thc-impairment-using-functional-near-infrared-spectroscopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/detection-of-thc-impairment-using-functional-near-infrared-spectroscopy","title":{"rendered":"Detection of THC Impairment Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/detection-of-thc-impairment-using-functional-near-infrared-spectroscopy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among adults receiving oral THC, portable fNIRS scans detected impairment with higher accuracy and fewer false positives than field sobriety tests, supporting fNIRS as a more objective approach for cannabis impairment detection.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This crossover trial compares the accuracy of resting-state functional near-infrared spectroscopy vs standard field sobriety testing to detect \u22069-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) impairment among adults who use cannabis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among adults receiving oral THC, portable fNIRS scans detected impairment with higher accuracy and fewer false positives than field sobriety tests, supporting fNIRS as a more objective approach for cannabis impairment detection. This crossover trial compares the accuracy of resting-state functional near-infrared spectroscopy vs standard field sobriety testing to detect \u22069-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) impairment among adults [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}