 | The Cavalier daily Tuesday, October 5, 1971 |  |
UCLA Experiment Seeks Students
To Smoke Marijuana For Profit
LOS ANGELES—(Daily Progress)
Wanted: student volunteers for research
project. Assignment: smoke
marijuana—legally and for money.
The ad in the UCLA student
newspaper prompts about 100 calls a week to
the school's Neuropsychiatric Institute, which
is conducting a study of the long-term effects
of marijuana smoking.
The one-year project headed by Drs. J.
Thomas Ungerleider and Ira Frank will use
about 120 volunteers before it is concluded
next June.
"Basically what we're trying to do," says
Frank, is evaluate marijuana as a drug in the
same way any other drug would be evaluated.
The volunteers must be males over the age
of 21, with previous experience with marijuana
ranging from none to heavy usage.
Pay ranges from $50 to $500 for up to 30
days of supervised marijuana smoking.
The project, financed by a $250,000 grant
from the National Institute of Mental Health,
uses marijuana provided by the federal
government.
"We want to be as objective as
possible...apart from all the emotion and
hysterics that are usually associated with
marijuana research."
| The Cavalier daily Tuesday, October 5, 1971 | |