Scientists Finally Figured Out Why Weed Gives You the Munchies
We’ve been joking about it for decades, but there is actual scientific grounding for the munchies , the seemingly bottomless pit of hunger that can open up after getting stoned. According to researchers at the University of Calgary , the phenomenon isn’t just stoner comedy fodder. It’s a real biological response, and the research team used rats to prove it. In a new study conducted in conjunction with researchers at Washington State University, neuroscientist Dr. Matthew Hill and his team exposed rats to cannabis vapor, and for about an hour after getting high, the rats ate like college kids on 4/20. The weed so sparked their appetites that they ate even after a full meal. The rats that weren’t exposed to weed vapor ignored all the extra food. But the high rats ate like they hadn’t eaten in days. The Munchies Are Real, and Scientists Just Learned More About Why With that observation noted, the researchers then fully expected the rats to gravitate toward t...