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Christine McPherson
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White Coat Waste Project
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UP IN SMOKE: WCW REPORT EXPOSES WASTEFUL CANNABIS AND ‘VAPE’ ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS
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UP IN SMOKE: A WCW PROJECT INVESTIGATION
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Back in February, White Coat Waste Project (WCW) revealed wasteful marijuana experiments
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experiments — the taxpayer-funded grants received $14 million in 2021 alone! —
and it quickly made the rounds on social media, prompting flurries of laugh
emojis.
This experiment, however, was just the tip of the iceberg.
Just in time for tax week — and 4/20 — WCW’s new report, UP IN SMOKE , explores the wacky and wasteful world of taxpayer-funded cannabis and
e-cigarette experiments on animals, and how they’re violating federal spending
transparency law.
Hot-boxing mice? ✅
JUUL pods for rodents? ✅
Getting mice high, then sticking them in plastic tubes? ✅
It’s not quite this…but it’s mighty close:
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And wait until you see the ‘pot lobster’ experiments that NIH white coats paid
for with your money!
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Even the experimenters themselves admit these cruel and wasteful animal tests
aren’t relevant to humans!
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Even though taxpayers funded every experiment in this report, you wouldn’t know
that from reading their press releases. We found that not a single experiment
was in compliance with the Stevens Amendment, a longstanding transparency law
requiring grant recipients to disclose any public funding for their experiments.
Not one! We’ve filed a complaint with the NIH to hold these rogue labs
accountable.
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Up In Smoke offers recommendations for reform, including auditing the NIH’s
funding of wasteful recreational drug experiments on animals, and strengthening
spending transparency laws, so Americans know how their tax dollars are being
spent.
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Both proposals have broad public support. An April 2022 national poll of 1,000
adults found that 58% percent of Americans — 65% of Republicans, 64% of
Independents, and 54% of Democrats — opposed cannabis experiments on animals.
Likewise, 65% of Americans — 74% of Republicans and 68% of Democrats — support
withholding taxpayer funds from transparency law violators.
Passing the Cost Openness and Spending Transparency Act , also known as the COST Act, would solve many of the problems we detail in the
report. Introduced in the Senate by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) and in the House by
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), the COST Act would enshrine the Stevens Amendment in
federal law, expand its reach to cover all Executive Branch agencies, and allow
taxpayer funds to be withheld from violators.
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Read UP IN SMOKE now, and when you start getting angry about the flagrant misuse
of your tax dollars, take action! Tell Congress to pass the& COST Act today!
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[[link removed]] To stop taxpayer-funded animal tests, we must first stop the $20 billion+ in
wasteful government spending.
We find, expose, and de-fund wasteful government spending on animal experiments.
To change public policy, we unite liberty lovers and animal lovers with
hard-hitting investigations and public policy campaigns.
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