The
intense, unremitting feeling of hunger your experience after smoking
marijuana. It's maybe the most well-recognized phenomenon in stoner
culture — yet few understand the chemical and biological processes that
make it happen.
Has
examined how marijuana affects metabolism and what access to pot does
to fatness rates in legal states, but the munchies deserves a separate
study, and we've checked out the analysis in an effort to tell our
readers about why smoking marijuana makes you crave, well, everything in
sight.
In
massive part, the munchies are a product of THC, the most psychoactive
element of marijuana. When you smoke, THC activates neurotransmitters in
your brain called endocannabinoids, which regulate metabolism and
activate hunger, among other things.
"Chemicals
in marijuana, especially THC, activate this false sense of hunger when
they interact with hormones like leptin, a main player in sending out
hunger signals," Ryan Vandrey, a behavioral pharmacologist at Johns Hopkins. "Then you get the munchies. If you hadn’t smoked, you probably wouldn’t have gotten hungry then ....Read more https://www.patriotdirect.org/why-you-get-the-munchies-after-you-smoking-marijuana/
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