According to a new analysis by a group opposed to publicly-funded animal research, federal grant winners breached the law by investing an approximate $246 million in taxpayer cash on cannabis and e-cigarette animal tests. Taxpayers paid an approximate $1.5 million for pregnant mice to be treated with marijuana metabolites in the research.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) routed money to scientists testing with getting animals high on THC or forcing them to ingest nicotine, according to a report (read below) released Wednesday by the White Coat Waste Project.
“The blunt truth is that tens of millions of tax dollars are going up in smoke for half-baked marijuana and vaping experiments on animals and NIH-funded white coats are breaking federal law by not disclosing how much they’re wasting to get animals wasted,” said Devin Murphy, a spokesperson for White Coat Waste Project, in a statement to The Daily Wire.
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