If you're a regular toker, there are currently spots available in a marijuana study where you can get paid to drive high.
The University of California, San Deigo is conducting a paid cannabis study to better understand the ways that cannabis impacts traffic safety. Subjects in the study will smoke and drive virtually to test the driver's ability to respond to challenges on the roadway.
Pays to Drive High
The University is still recruiting participants for this study, so if you're interested, now is your chance! Participants get paid $50 for the initial appointment. When participants come for their full-day assessment, UCSD will pay up to $180 a session.
The participant will have their work cut out for them because in the marijuana study they are testing various potencies of THC. Each participant will smoke a joint, which will be rolled for them on site. Some will smoke joints with high-potency and others will have no THC at all.
Researchers want to know how different levels of THC impacts a person's ability to drive; they also want to test the placebo effect.
Timing is also another variable that will be studied. If a person consumes cannabis earlier in the day, how long will it last? Researchers want to test how long participants will remain under the influence.
Blood and saliva samples will be taken from the participants on an hourly basis.
Safe or Not Safe?
As more places make recreational and medicinal cannabis legal, state authorities are growing worrisome over traffic safety. Driver safety has become a priority in states with legal adult-use cannabis.
Many authorities don't have a proper way to tell if individuals are under the influence of cannabis and able to effectively drive. This cannabis study by the UC San Diego should give authorities more insight and hopefully come up with some clear regulations for driving under the influence.
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