There’s a new study out of Washington State University where researchers are needing volunteers to smoke pot.

Volunteers will be paid $30 an hour for the first hour and $10 for every additional hour of participation.

The study, sponsored by the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, will be conducted in conjunction with the Pullman Police Department.

According to WSU Professor Emeritus Nicholas Lovrich, doctoral candidate Peyton Nosbusch and City Councilor and research assistant Nathan Weller, speaking to the Pullman League of Women Voters on Thursday, the breathalyzer will need to accurately detect “acute exposure” to tetrahydrocannabinol.

Volunteers who sign up fo rthe study will need to be prepared to answer questions regarding any food, drink, and other edibles that they have recently had. They will also be asked to give breath and oral fluid samples as well as preliminary blood at Pullman Regional Hospital.

After, volunteers will be asked to buy marijuana from a state-licensed retail store and will smoke it in a private residence until the volunteer believes they have reached a high. Upon returning to the hospital via tax, they will have to give additional bodily samples.
Volunteers will also have to cooperate with law enforcement volunteers who will be giving them field sobriety tests.

Nicholas Lovrich said that if the breathalyzer, or ion mobility spectrometer, is proven to be reliable in detecting THC during the experiment, then the information could be passed on either to the company that makes the breathalyzer or to another company to re-engineer the device to become smaller and more durable.

If successful, the WSU patented device could be one day be used by police worldwide.


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