I know it’s somewhat off topic – but fun to read
The mutual appreciation may not extend to midnight pizza pops and The Big Lebowski, but new University of Calgary research shows that rats on cannabis do share an acute craving for food with human marijuana users.
The study is helping scientists understand the mechanics of why cannabis stimulates appetite — knowledge that may in turn help with eating disorders and loss of appetite in cancer patients and others.
“We know cannabis consumption acutely promotes food intake, or the ‘munchies,’ as it is known, but these appetitive effects have not been looked at in depth,” says Dr. Matthew Hill, PhD, a professor at UCalgary’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the Cumming School of Medicine.
The joint project by researchers at UCalgary and Washington State University was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Hill and first author, Dr. Catherine Hume, PhD, led the UCalgary portion of the work, focusing on rats and the munchies, while the Washington State team carried out a parallel human clinical study involving 82 study participants between the ages of 21 and 62. Vaporized delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)-dominant cannabis was used in the study.
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https://ucalgary.ca/news/marijuana-fuelled-munchies-animals-get-them-too-international-study-shows
