Earn money for taking drugs
Could this be the ultimate student dream. Poring through the small ads in the London Evening Standard today (well you can’t spend all your time reading the financial pages can you) I come across a box screaming ‘Ecstasy Research … participants required’. Intrigued, I read on to find that the University of East London will pay you a £25 gift voucher if you participate in and complete their study. The only prerequisite is that you should have ‘used Ecstasy or any other illicit drugs’ at some point in the past. The study, by UEL’s Psychology department, is to ascertain the effects of Ecstasy on eating. Little did I ever imagine that you could earn money for taking drugs.
If you are interested in turning your misspent youth to profit, then email Rhani at r.j.allen@uel.acuk or ring 020 8223 4423. Your confidentiality is assured. This rather puts us in mind of the days when you could earn money for donating semen (a lark that disappeared with the confidentiality of sperm donors, meaning your £20 cheque would be dwarfed by your unknown progeny turning up and demanding 20 years back pocket money), and for undergoing medical research. After the unfortunate deaths of several participants in recent drugs trials that little earner now appears remarkably unappealing too. Check out our Free Stuff archive for more unexpected freebies.
