Increased appetite, or what some call the “munchies,” is a common physical effect of marijuana. Researchers from Yale School of Medicine recently conducted a study to find out why appetite increases when using marijuana even when people are full. Their findings, which are published in the journal Nature, show that neurons which usually shut down eating are actually doing the opposite by promoting hunger. They are basically fooling the brain’s central feeding system into thinking the body is hungry. David W. Wallace describes it as “pressing the car breaks but accelerating instead.”
Will Marijuana Be The Next Opioid Addiction Treatment?
Marijuana is a psychoactive ingredient with many healing properties when used the right way. Increasingly, marijuana legalization and medicalization is crawling across the country. As the medical uses of marijuana are investigated for their many purposes, one of the areas researchers have been considering is opioid addiction treatment. The opioid epidemic has …