weed and munchies

[iheartthisthread]

Why does smoking make you want to eat?
It`s used medicinally to help people eat and keep food down.
Just wondering why it does that.

 

[iSTONED]

Because it makes everything taste amazing! I think it's because Marijuana enhances all of your senses. Even hunger.If i'm the least bit hungry and then I smoke the least bit hungry turns into feeling more intense hunger, then I just start to eat and eat and eat. Scientifically, I have no idea. That's just my opinion.

 

[Odowakka]

It's something to do with certain cannabinoids binding to the receptors in your brain that make you feel hungry and also that let you know when you're full, hence why you'll often find once you start eating you can't stop haha

 

[welshmick]

A good smoke will almost double your metabolic rate. Thats why you feel hungry.
Plus the other reasons mentioned here.
Ever wondered why you don't see many fat stoners - thats because they burn the food off quick again.

That's my theory anyway

 

[shimazu]

^
id like to see some evidence of that before just blindly accepting it.

theres a lot of fat stoners

 

[iheartthisthread]

when i smoked- nacho doritos, peanut m&ms, and a can of coke were my go to snack...

 

[ErgicMergic]

The same reason it impairs the learning of new things and affects short term memory: it plays with the hippocampus in the brain, making you think you're hungry when you're really not, and making your food taste amazing even when it's really shitty.

Munchies got really annoying after a while; it's so much easier to lose weight now that I haven't smoked in a couple of months. I would even eat a full meal before smoking to keep munchies away so I wouldn't munch out and kill the high, but I just HAD to eat within two hours of smoking.

 

[gearfiend]

if you dont like munchies, i take adderall with my weed and you get that delightful full feeling without ever actually eating. the reason everything tastes better is because the cannabinoids in weed stimulate the natural cannabinoid receptors in your brain that regulate appetite and taste reward. this causes an artificial feeling of hunger and an increase in the pleasure reaction aka how good food tastes. im still kinda stoned from smoking like 5 hours ago tho so if any of this makes no sense my bad

 

[Jibult]

when i smoked- nacho doritos, peanut m&ms, and a can of coke were my go to snack...

I'm still trying to figure out why milk chocolate makes Nacho Cheese Doritos taste infinitely better if you eat the chips right after some M&Ms, Crunch Bars or Hershey Kisses.

 

[ErgicMergic]

Gearfiend, what's funny is that the L-amphetamine in Adderall actually modifies the hippocampus, too, and causes increased memory formations and learning over plain D-amphetamine (Dexedrine), and makes food taste bad and makes you feel full (anti-munchies). I wonder if L-amphetamine and cannabis do the exact opposite things in the hippocampus.

And no, endocannabinoids ("cannabinoids from inside," natural) are released naturally by the brain during exercise, sex, spicy foods, etc, along with endorphins ("morphines from inside"). Smoking cannabis makes exogenous cannabinoids bind to the CB1 and CB2 cannabinoid receptors.

 

[Cane2theLeft]

cannabis also lowers blood sugar which increases your appetite and makes you crave sweets.

 

[JD55]

There's tons of research on this, just do a simple google search and you'll find your answer.

 

[Chainer]

There's tons of research on this, just do a simple google search and you'll find your answer.

^ or the search engine, but yeah...

UTSE
or
Google is your friend.

Your body, it seems, contains specialized proteins called cannabinoid receptors. (Broadly speaking, receptors react to certain stimuli and produce certain results.) The best-known cannabinoid is delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, the principal psychoactive ingredient of weed (aka cannabis). Far more important from the body's standpoint, however, are the endogenous (i.e., internally synthesized) cannabinoids, endocannabinoids for short, which work like neurotransmitters and are produced as part of the built-in apparatus by which peripheral parts of the body inform the brain that it's lunchtime. Endocannabinoids and cannabinoid receptors are abundant in the hypothalamus, the region of the brain that plays a pivotal role in appetite regulation. In 1992 researchers identified the first endocannabinoid and named it anandamide, from the Sanskrit ananda, meaning inner bliss. In other words, when you smoke dope, you're replicating (albeit with much greater intensity) an effect the body produces naturally for itself.