King’s College London says it will pay its healthy male academics, aged 25 to 40, to take the illegal drug Cocaine so they can research its effects.

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King’s College London is looking for guinea pigs to take cocaine as part of a study on the illegal drug.

Students at a top British university have been asked to snort cocaine.

Seriously.

King’s College London says it will pay its healthy male academics, aged 25 to 40, to take the illegal drug so they can research its effects.

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But those hoping for a quick fix will be in for disappointment as recreational users have been banned from taking part.

Student doctors and dentists are also not permitted to sign up for the clinical trial.

An email for the “important scientific study,” approved by the London Westminster Research Ethics Committee, was sent out last week.

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“After cocaine administration, repeated biological samples (blood, urine, hair, sweat, oral fluid) will be taken to compare and investigate how cocaine and its metabolites are spread through the human body,” the email said.

Participants will not be able to cut or dye their hair for the duration of the 120-day study, which is being supervised by the clinical toxicology department at St. Thomas’ Hospital, according to The Independent.

A King’s College spokesman said the purpose of the study is not to be sniffed at — and upheld the need to do research on the drug.

“This is an important scientific study to investigate how cocaine and its metabolites are spread through the human body,” he said.

Drug lord Naw Kham is taken from a Chinese jail to be executed on Friday.

A notorious gang leader and drug lord from Myanmar was among four foreigners executed in China Friday, marking the first time Beijing has extradited, tried and put to death foreign nationals. 

Naw Kham and three accomplices from Thailand and Laos were given a lethal injection in Yunnan’s provincial capital, Kunming, late Friday afternoon.

The four were found guilty last year and sentenced Wednesday for the October 2011 hijacking of two cargo ships and the murder of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River.

But Beijing’s decision to live broadcast the final moments of the men as they waited in their cells followed by their walk to waiting police cars to the execution facility has drawn criticism across China’s websphere.

The four were additional found guilty of smuggling drugs, kidnapping and hijacking cargo ships in the “Golden Triangle,” a section of territory that overlaps parts of Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam and Laos that accounts for much of Asia’s opium and methamphetamines production.

Beijing contends that, while Naw Kham masterminded the hijacking of the two Chinese cargo ships, he also colluded with Thai soldiers who may have been responsible for the slaying of the sailors. 

Thai authorities are investigating nine of their soldiers alleged to be involved in the incident.

The capture of Naw Kham – who was at the center of the region's bustling drug trade – was a coup for Chinese police and anti-drug ministries, which reportedly spent a year tracking the infamous smuggler.

The search was unprecedented as it marked the first time that Chinese forces were seen actively searching for foreign national criminal suspects outside of China’s borders