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Clear30 is awarded a $3 million grant from NIH for cannabis use disorder.
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Clear30

Built on decades of research

Built by a team that has published hundreds of peer-reviewed studies with tens of thousands of citations across addiction science, digital intervention, and cannabis research.
National Institutes of Health
Research funded by
NIH / NIDA
Federal research funding

SBIR Phase I and Phase II, both awarded

Awarded through the Small Business Innovation Research program at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the gold standard for behavioral health research funding in the United States. Most applicants never clear Phase I.
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Phase I
Feasibility
Proved the program could work as a standalone digital intervention.
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Phase II
Efficacy at scale
Funding the full trial and build of the therapeutic.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
SBIR · NIDA
Competitive, peer-reviewed federal grant program
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Phase I
Complete
A 30-day cannabis break built for people under 21
Funded the design, build, and pilot of a version of Clear30 for young adults, and established that they will use it.
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Phase II
Awarded
The first standalone digital therapeutic for cannabis use disorder
Funds the clinical trial and the FDA regulatory pathway toward a prescribable treatment for cannabis use disorder.
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What comes next
Ahead
FDA clearance as a prescribable treatment
The goal is the first cleared digital therapeutic for cannabis use disorder, prescribable like any other treatment.
Harvard University
Our research partner
MGH / Harvard Medical School
We work with the Recovery Research Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, so the people measuring whether Clear30 works are not the people who built it.
The paper in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
Published
September 2025
What 4,415 cannabis self-assessments reveal about young adults trying to cut back
Led by the Recovery Research Institute. Eight in ten had already tried a break that did not hold.
Read the article →
Harvard University
Recovery Research Institute at MGH
In progress
2026
Efficacy and outcomes study
Results on use, mood, and retention across the first campus cohorts, run by the Recovery Research Institute.
Scientific and clinical advisors

Advisory leadership

Expert guidance across addiction science, clinical care, public health policy, and behavior change, so Clear30 is developed and evaluated the way institutions expect.
Dr. Fred Muench
Our founder

Fred Muench, PhD

Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer
Two decades of published work on digital behavior change and addiction care, including the largest mobile addiction study ever run.
100+
peer-reviewed articles
6
patents held
6,507
citations
Clear30
The #1 app for a clearer relationship with cannabis.
© 2026 Clear30. Research references available on request.