Paid to get the Dope

[Guest Urbanhog]

Paid to get the dope

By MANDI ZONNEVELDT

 

MONASH University is offering a $50,000 grant to study dope.

 

The university is looking for a PhD student to research the economics of marijuana, but the project will not involve sampling the product or hitting the streets to find the best deal.

 

Instead, the economic impact of the drug will be weeded out through analysis of statistics from Federal Government drug surveys and the Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence.

 

Dr Xueyan Zhao, from Monash University's Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, will supervise the successful student's investigation of marijuana use in Australia, the cost of the drug and its impact on the market for alcohol and tobacco. She said the research would also consider whether legalising marijuana would create a tax boon for governments.

 

``From the economic aspect it's a win-win once you legalise it,'' she said.

 

``But there's probably very strong argument to say you can't legalise it because of the health risks.''

 

Source: Herald Sun

Edition 1 - FIRSTTHU 28 NOV 2002, Page 015

 

I would love to do this study, but pity, I am not a PhD Student

 

Urbanhog

[wall]

Hey urbanhog,

Phd stands for Pot Head Devotee

Now who says you are not edumacated.

[Brainstorm]

I hope they also look at the cost of mj in relation to prosecution, custodial sentences and all that sort of stuff.