why does pot use result in hunger?

[novelist_wannabe]

Recognizing that the comic possibilities could very well be endless, I ask a semi-serious question, not that I have had any personal experience with this:

What characteristics about cannabis generate hunger in its users? DocTalk? Anyone?

 

[Ace]

Snack food manufacturers have been putting munchie-inducing additives in pot for decades.

Taco Bell and Little Debbie wouldn't exist without it.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Snack food manufacturers have been putting munchie-inducing additives in pot for decades.

Taco Bell and Little Debbie wouldn't exist without it.

Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls are perfection in a plastic wrapper.

 

[Buck]

I don't know the answer to the question, but I wanted to take this opportunity to mention the movie 'Smiley Face.'
As a former pot smoker, I thought it was pretty funny.

 

[John]

Snack food manufacturers have been putting munchie-inducing additives in pot for decades.

Taco Bell and Little Debbie wouldn't exist without it.

Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls are perfection in a plastic wrapper.

I prefer the zebra cakes.

 

[Jones]

All I know is, I was altered in Montreal one night, and it was late, and I could have eaten a ****burger and said yummy in my tummy. So that's what I did: I went to McDonald's, and I ordered a Big Mac with a poutine (fries, gravy, cheese curds) and a vanilla shake. If I ate that now, I would barf the biggest McBarf ever barfed. But at that moment, on that night, I swear on all that is holy, that was the best meal I'd ever eaten. In fact, even now, if someone asked me about my life's great dining experiences, I would put that in the top two or three. I don't think I've ever enjoyed food that much.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Can you give the magazine 3,000 words on that? I'd read it.

 

[Bubbler]

I ate a pack of Starburst while doped on opium-laced weed. Most vivid food experience I've ever had. Each bite felt like I was chomping head-long into an orange tree, or a strawberry patch, etc. It was tripalicious.

Then a buddy of mine and I looked at his furnace for a while and just cracked up. That was one funny ass furnace.

After that, we ensured that Taco Bell dominated Mexican food and late-night stoner market share.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

I know that I feel so ****ing parched, I need to be tossing stuff down the hatch in great quantities to rid myself of that feeling.

 

[Football_Bat]

I can deal with the munchies. That the THC makes my dingus three inches shorter is problematic.

 

[GBNF]

Krispy. Kreme.

 

[dreunc1542]

All I know is, I was altered in Montreal one night, and it was late, and I could have eaten a ****burger and said yummy in my tummy. So that's what I did: I went to McDonald's, and I ordered a Big Mac with a poutine (fries, gravy, cheese curds) and a vanilla shake. If I ate that now, I would barf the biggest McBarf ever barfed. But at that moment, on that night, I swear on all that is holy, that was the best meal I'd ever eaten. In fact, even now, if someone asked me about my life's great dining experiences, I would put that in the top two or three. I don't think I've ever enjoyed food that much.

I had poutine at McD's while drunk this past weekend in Quebec City and it was amazing even though I'm pretty sure I'd never eat it at McD's while sober.

 

[User 4755]

Ask him:

 

[Oggiedoggie]

The Munchies
One peculiar phenomenon associated with marijuana use is the increased hunger that users feel, often called the "munchies." Research shows that marijuana increases food enjoyment and the number of times a person eats each day, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Until recently, the munchies were a relative mystery. However, a recent study by Italian scientists may explain what happens to increase appetite in marijuana users. Molecules called endocannabinoids bind with receptors in the brain and activate hunger.

This research indicates that endocannabinoids in the hypothalamus of the brain activate cannabinoid receptors that are responsible for maintaining food intake. The results of the study were published in an April 2001 issue of the scientific journal Nature.

From: http://health.howstuffworks.com/marijuana4.htm

 

[HejiraHenry]

Then a buddy of mine and I looked at his furnace for a while and just cracked up. That was one funny ass furnace.

I had a similar experience in college with the red STEREO light on my stereo.

That was one damned fascinating light, I tell you.

 

[hondo]

I ate a pack of Starburst while doped on opium-laced weed. Most vivid food experience I've ever had. Each bite felt like I was chomping head-long into an orange tree, or a strawberry patch, etc. It was tripalicious.

Then a buddy of mine and I looked at his furnace for a while and just cracked up. That was one funny ass furnace.

After that, we ensured that Taco Bell dominated Mexican food and late-night stoner market share.

Wow ... will being a dope-head be this funny later in the life, when you mature?

 

[Bubbler]

I ate a pack of Starburst while doped on opium-laced weed. Most vivid food experience I've ever had. Each bite felt like I was chomping head-long into an orange tree, or a strawberry patch, etc. It was tripalicious.

Then a buddy of mine and I looked at his furnace for a while and just cracked up. That was one funny ass furnace.

After that, we ensured that Taco Bell dominated Mexican food and late-night stoner market share.

Wow ... will being a dope-head be this funny later in the life, when you mature?

Even funnier.

Isn't there a Koran passage you need to misinterpret today?

 

[Giggity]

My experience isn't that it makes you hungry, per se, so much as it makes food taste really damn good, thus causing you to want to eat it in large quantities. It's the same reason music sounds better when you're stoned - heightened sensory perception.

 

[EE94]

All I know is, I was altered in Montreal one night, and it was late, and I could have eaten a ****burger and said yummy in my tummy. So that's what I did: I went to McDonald's, and I ordered a Big Mac with a poutine (fries, gravy, cheese curds) and a vanilla shake. If I ate that now, I would barf the biggest McBarf ever barfed. But at that moment, on that night, I swear on all that is holy, that was the best meal I'd ever eaten. In fact, even now, if someone asked me about my life's great dining experiences, I would put that in the top two or three. I don't think I've ever enjoyed food that much.

Hilarious. Have done similar. It's tough to chew when you sport the biggest ****-eating grin one could imagine and all you can say to your equally altered buddy is "Mmmmm"

 

[EE94]

It's the same reason music sounds better when you're stoned - heightened sensory perception.

which would explain The Doors and their five minute organ riffs