Are you really asking me for a source to prove that being caught doing something massively illegal will result in negative consequences? I'm going to assume tha

Are you really asking me for a source to prove that being caught doing something massively illegal will result in negative consequences? I'm going to assume that when we talk about running a study, we are talking about using marijuana in humans in a study, meaning a clinical trial. In order to perform a clinical trial with marijuana, by law investigators would need to get an IND (investigational new drug) application approved by the FDA as FDA does not recognize marijuana as a safe and effective drug for any indication. Part of this involves DEA review, and DEA will almost certainly say no. Let's assume for the sake of argument that you do not care about getting approval to run your study. If you do not get an IND approval and you run a clinical trial anyway, your physicians will almost certainly lose their medical licenses, all participants will be subject to multiple criminal offenses, the group will lose all their funding, they be slapped with enormous amounts of fees, and participants will likely lose their university and / or hospital appointments. https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/ucm421163.h.. https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/ucm421163.h.... https://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/ResourcesforYou/ucm2681.. https://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/ResourcesforYou/ucm2681.... I don't have a concrete example for as to what will happen because to my knowledge no one has been stupid enough to give the FDA the middle finger and run an unlicensed clinical trial. FDA would never let this go unanswered because it would completely undermine their regulatory authority and set a horrible precedent. In effect, this is a perma-ban level offense, and people that do it should expect to get massively punished.