Feds paying for sewer analysis of pot usage in Washington

[John in Plano]

I think an associate professor needs to publish and found an angle to get taxpayers to fund his study;

The federal government is chipping in money for a three-year pilot study using sewage samples to determine levels of marijuana use in two Washington cities — research that could help answer some key questions about pot legalization, the University of Puget Sound announced Monday.

The National Institutes of Health has agreed to pay $120,000 so Dan Burgard, an associate chemistry professor, can conduct a three-year study that will look at how per-capita pot use changed after Washington's first legal pot shops opened last July.


https://news.yahoo.com/feds-paying-sewe ... 02874.html