This makes funding and access to research-grade, federally legal cannabis hard to come by; even in states where marijuana is legal, studies on the drug are still subject to approval by multiple boards, and samples must be procured from the only lab in the country approved to dispense research-grade marijuana.
The initiative, known as Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, dispensed research grants to nearly four dozen institutions around the region.
America's National Science Foundation, which dispenses federal research grants, spends about 20 times as much on the social sciences as a whole.
While the pain of legal liability is a huge issue, and one that many automobile executives would happily dispense with, my research with John Paul MacDuffie of Wharton on why value didn't migrate in cars (from OEM to suppliers) as it did migrate in computers suggests that legal liability is a major benefit in disguise.
Some $220 million and 2,290 grants were dispensed for AIDS research, as well as arts and education in the city.
The Wellcome Trust, which considers "climate change to be one of the greatest contemporary challenges to global health", is the world's second largest non-governmental funder of medical research, dispensing £727m in grants in 2014.
Even the European commission, which dispensed grants for research and development worth €2.9bn (£2.4bn) to British firms between 2007 and 2011 (and €2.4bn to French companies) directed most of the money to big corporates.
The charities at issue are not philanthropies like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that dispense grants for medical research but remain independent of any one group of doctors or medical practice.
As well as veterinarians (who, despite being scarce in rural areas, have the legal authority to prescribe and dispense drugs) and NAFDAC, research institutions like the Nigerian Institute for Trypanosomiasis and Onchocerciasis Research and the National Veterinary Research Institute are also important centres of expertise.
Today it stands as the second largest non-governmental funder of medical research, last year dispensing more than £727m in grants.
The Wellcome Trust is the world's second largest non-governmental funder of medical research, last year dispensing £727m in grants.
