President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency canceled a second grant worth nearly $700,000 to Ohio State University to study cannabis use disorder in the LGBTQ+ community.
The study by Ohio State College of Nursing professor Christina Dyar was focused on examining lesbian, bisexual and queer women, and gender diverse people who were assigned female at birth and whether they are at higher risk for cannabis use disorder when compared to heterosexual women.
DOGE announced the funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health in a social media post last week. Ohio State confirmed the funding was canceled.
The NIH website on the study described it as researching the risk for cannabis use disorder and how the "disparity growing in recent years, but little is known about how cannabis use risk processes unfold on a daily basis among sexual minority women and gender diverse individuals."
The grant had already received more than $715,000 in funding for the study in 2023. It is unclear how the funding cut will impact the study since the National Institutes of Health reports it was completed last week on Tuesday.
Dyar and her colleagues published a paper this year titled "Planned versus unplanned alcohol and cannabis use: Motivational and contextual correlates among sexual minority women and gender diverse individuals."
It's unclear how much this study contributed to the paper.
Ohio State declined to comment on the grant cancellation. Dyar did not respond to a request for comment.
