The abusive use of allowed and illicit psychoactive substances has got alarming dimensions as it, in the present time, is a challenge for the public health. It is known that marijuana is the most used illicit drug in Brazilian reality. This research had as objective to investigate Social Representations of Psychology students concerning marijuana. Two hundred college students participated; from both sex (feminine 76.2%), whose ages were around18 to 26 years. The Words Free Association Test was used, having as stimulation-inductor the word marijuana. The data had been processed by software tri-deux-mots (version 6.1) through the factorial analysis of correspondence. The results had pointed differences of sort in the forms to represent marijuana. The college male students objectified marijuana to questions directed towards pleasure/hedonism, while the female ones to psychosocial aspects. The younger students presented a negative vision about the grass, and the oldest ones gave emphasis to the preconception suffered by the users.
students; marijuana; social representations
