In what may come as a golden opportunity to some, a German research company is looking for 25,000 volunteers to lend their services to a study into the long-term effects of getting high.
The one setback for potential UK participants is that, as it happens, the study will take place in Germany for research initiative Cannabiskonsum.
But coughing up a couple hundred to stay abroad for 30g of free weed each month? Sounds like a decent deal to me.
For whatever reason, only 2,000 people have signed up so far.
Managing director of the study, Marko Dörre, said: "In Germany, several million people regularly get high with cannabis. It is time that science becomes more engaged with recreational use."
Research director Dr Thomas Schnel added: "Cannabis as a drug has been largely neglected by research, with the exception of specific subgroups that are conspicuous in the health system, either by being addicted to cannabis or by a severe mental disorder.
"Most consumers do not seem to develop either a dependency or a clinically relevant mental disorder, so the extent to which cannabis use is effective in these healthy consumers... should therefore be explored more intensively."
Marijuana, or cannabis, "the most widely cultivated, produced, trafficked and consumed drug worldwide," according to a World Drug Report, was given the thumbs up in Germany back in January.
An act to legalise the use of medicinal marijuana was passed by German parliamentarians, on both the right and left.
On January 19, votes were unanimous in favor of the new "cannabis as medicine" law.
Germany has since created a state-regulated program to cultivate the crop for its medicinal use and to ensure its quality. Plants were previously imported.
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"Critically ill people must be cared for in the best possible way," Federal Health Minister Hermann Gröhe said in a statement, adding that "costs of using cannabis for medicinal purposes will be met by the health insurance companies of the critically ill, if no other form of treatment is effective."
People with multiple sclerosis and other debilitating illnesses will be able to purchase the drug legally with a prescription. Doctors will also be able to prescribe cannabis to patients suffering from chronic pain or nausea.
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