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Taxpayer, this edition of Waste of the Week (WOW) is
called “Edible Arrangements.”
We’re not talking about the chocolate-covered fruit baskets you send when you
have no idea what to give someone. Nope — we’re talking about marijuana edibles.
You know…. Weed. Reefer. Pot. Grass. Ganja. Wacky tobacky. Jazz cabbage. The devil’s
lettuce.
Taxpayer, White Coat Waste Project (WCW) investigators
discovered the National Institutes of Health (NIH) SECRETLY paid white coats in
Oregon to get monkeys stoned.
Then, they proceeded to hide how much of your tax money they wasted on the
experiments… breaking federal transparency law!
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the COST Act, which would cut tax funding for rogue labs like this
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[[link removed]]Taxpayer, if you don’t know, ‘edibles’ are foods or
beverages infused with marijuana.
They’re frequently used by medical cannabis patients, as the dosages are
standardized and they don’t need to be smoked.
They’re also popular among college students, suburban mothers, music festival
aficionados, libertarians, and white coats at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU).
During the experiments, 14 macaque monkeys were given a THC edible every day for
up to four months to see whether THC affected the females’ menstrual cycles and
the males’ fertility.
You’re paying for these experiments — and the price tag is so high , even Snoop Dogg would blush: the project received over $14 million last year alone.
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[[link removed]]But Taxpayer, you wouldn’t know how much you were paying
for these experiments, even if you dug deep and searched for OHSU’s press
releases about them. (We did it for you: they’re available here
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Even though the releases do indicate that the experiments were “supported by
National Institutes of Health grants,” they fail to include three specific
elements:
* The percentage of the total costs of the experiments financed with taxpayer
money
* The dollar amount of taxpayer funds used in the experiments; and
* The percentage and dollar amount of the experiment funded by non-government
sources.
Including these three data points in press releases isn’t just good for
transparency — it’s federal law. Called the “Stevens Amendment,” these
pro-taxpayer transparency requirements have been included in government funding
bills for over thirty years.
OHSU’s ‘edible’ experiments broke the law…so WCW made ‘arrangements’ to hold
them accountable. We filed a complaint to the NIH, outlining OHSU’s Stevens
Amendment violations.
Maybe these white coats were embarrassed to disclose the costs of their monkey
business to the taxpayers who funded them…especially since cannabis is legal for
recreational and medical use in Oregon, studies with human volunteers would have
been easy to arrange.
Or maybe OHSU just doesn’t care about following federal law. A lot of
universities don’t.
Recently, we filed a similar complaint
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Amendment violations from university white coats again
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This is why the COST Act
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important legislation. If passed, it would strengthen the enforcement of transparency law, making it possible to withhold
funds from institutions that don’t comply.
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With so many universities defying the law, it’s long past time for a #RogueLabRollback.
WCW is proud to be the ONLY group to shut down a primate lab in the United
States in the last half-decade — in fact, we’ve SHUT DOWN THREE government labs
— and with your help, we’ll close this rogue lab, too!
The COST Act: Please this secure link RIGHT NOW and urge your members of Congress to support
the COST Act.
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Ann Marie Dori
Operations Manager
White Coat Waste Project
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We find, expose, and de-fund wasteful government spending on animal experiments.
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