Legal Marijuana Use Research gets NIH funding
TACOMA – Several American states have now legalized recreational marijuana, including Washington, which approved adult use in fall 2012. Yet just how this will affect people’s use of the drug remains uncertain.
Dan Burgard, associate professor of chemistry at University of Puget Sound, is gathering scientific evidence to answer that question, using a pioneering research technique and more than $120,000 in support from the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health. His three-year research project, which builds on four years of previous work, began in Washington state this month.
Burgard and student assistants are testing the public wastewater at two Western Washington sewage treatment plants for traces of marijuana, using a retrieval and chemical analysis method that Burgard adapted from earlier work by scientists in Italy. Burgard says the research will provide objective evidence that has not been available before.
“In the past authorities have tended...
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