Revealed: Why You Get The Munchies After Smoking Pot, Yale University Study

(Bloomberg) -- Using marijuana on a full stomach might still cause the munchies, flipping a switch in the brain that usually tells the body it’s not hungry, a study found.

The findings were the opposite of what researchers said they expected –- the neurons should have been turned off since the mice in the study had just eaten, said senior study author Tamas Horvath. The paper appeared Wednesday in the journal Nature.

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