The Feds Are Offering Grants to Study How Coronavirus Impacts Cannabis Consumers

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The feds are offering up to $400,000 to researchers willing to study how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting nicotine, cannabis, opioid, and methamphetamine users.

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The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) recently announced that it will fund research into how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting users of cannabis, tobacco, or other drugs. The agency is planning to offer two separate grants to researchers who are willing to study how drug users may be uniquely impacted by coronavirus infections.

“As people across the US and the rest of the world prepare for what could be a pandemic of the 2019 novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, the research community should be alert to the possibility that...

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