Got the Munchies?

yoink! writes: "Yet another BBC story, run yesterday [April 12, 2001] indicates that scientists have discovered just why we need to munch after having toked. Apparently the chemical is used to try to stop weight loss; our brains, as with THC, have natural receptors for it Not that anyone actually smokes pot or anything, dude."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Suddenly the Slashdot colour scheme makes like - so much more sense, man.

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[QuantumG]

yes, because a drug that makes you really really hungry (man) is the perfect thing to aid wieght loss.

never understood the sweet

[johnjones]

hey do you get the munchies in the US ?

not such a daft question there is a sweet called the munchies here in the UK, is that what the BBC is talking about ?

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Wait until the DEA subpeonas 7-11 cams

[georgeha]

just to see who wonders in with pink eyes, buying Doritoes and Slim Jims.

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[Valdrax]

More sarcasm:

Wow. I'm impressed! Not only did you manage to come up with an intelligent reply without reading the linked story, you did it without even fully reading the Slashdot summary! Thumbs up to you, man!

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[QuantumG]

I read the article, so if my statement is stupid, I have no excuse. Hell, just look at the other reply to my post, I'm still confused.

mmmmyummy Slashdot garump chomp chomp chomp

[kingalobar]

slashdot with caramel sauce mmm my favorite

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[Valdrax]

From the blurb up top:
Apparently the chemical is used to try to stop weight loss...

It doesn't help weight loss. It helps remdy/prevent weight loss. The receptors and the naturally produced chemicals in the brain that trigger them were evolved to encourage someone who had been starving to eat extra amounts of food to try to build back what had been damaged during starvation.

Perhaps I jumped down your throat unfairly. It seemed as if you were trying to say that it was silly to link marijuana to weight loss, as if they were saying that those chemicals were having the opposite effect. In retrospect, I'm not sure exactly what it was you were saying, but it sounded like you had things backwards and were being a smartass because of it. Sorry if I jumped down your throat without reason. I get a little irritated sometimes about the way that about 90% of the comment in any Science article are by people who didn't even bother to read the article.

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[QuantumG]

I hear ya, and dont worry about it. Making someone eat is not going to help them put on weight, all it is going to do is make them feel more guilty/depressed and probably insight suicide.