The Trump administration is touting its cancellation of federal grant funding for a study examining cannabis use risks among LGBTQ+ individuals, non-binary people and heterosexual women.
On Tuesday, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that’s headed up by Elon Musk listed a series of National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant funds it has eliminated, including the marijuana research project.
“Today, NIH cancelled the following grants,” DOGE said on X, which is owned by Musk. Of those grants, one was described as “$699K for studying ‘cannabis use’ among ‘sexual minority gender diverse individuals.’”
The Trump administration is touting its cancellation of federal grant funding for a study examining cannabis use risks among LGBTQ+ individuals, non-binary people and heterosexual women.
On Tuesday, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that’s headed up by Elon Musk listed a series of National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant funds it has eliminated, including the marijuana research project.
“Today, NIH cancelled the following grants,” DOGE said on X, which is owned by Musk. Of those grants, one was described as “$699K for studying ‘cannabis use’ among ‘sexual minority gender diverse individuals.’”
That’s not a particularly nuanced characterization of the research project, which focuses on examining risk factors for cannabis use disorder (CUD) among not only “sexual minority gender diverse individuals” (SMWGD) but also heterosexual women.
Researchers at Ohio State University (OSU) sought to identify “similarities and differences in effects of shared risk factors on [cannabis use, or CU] for these two groups, determine if differences in CU trajectories contribute to CUD disparities, and identify unique risk factors for SMWGD,” according to NIH.
“Sexual minority women (e.g., lesbian, bisexual, queer women) and gender diverse (e.g., non-binary) sexual minorities assigned female at birth are at elevated risk for cannabis use disorder (CUD) compared to heterosexual women, with this disparity growing in recent years, but little is known about how cannabis use (CU) risk processes unfold on a daily basis among sexual minority women and gender diverse individuals (SMWGD).”
Researchers on the study were set to receive $699,139 in funding after having previously been awarded $715,244.
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