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"National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded project by psychologist Harris Rubin for $121,000, on developing "some objective evidence concerning marijuana's effect on sexual arousal by exposing groups of male pot-smokers to pornographic films and measuring their responses by means of sensors attached to their penises".[26][27]"

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Edit: I originally misquoted. A quick search corrected what I'd misremembered.

That’s tremendous, can you imagine the initial conversations?

I suspect the initial conversation was along the lines of, "holy shit Harris are you fucking with me? You can get money for this?! Dude!"

I'd be even more interested in how the initial conversations about the alcoholic sunfish were like.

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