A TEAM OF RESEARCHERS AT WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY (WSU) set out to better understand the power of cannabis in stimulating appetite—the phenomenon we all know as “the munchies.” While the overall consensus has been that cannabis stimulates appetite in most, but not all individuals, little is known about the biological mechanisms behind how it works.
Through both cutting-edge technology to observe neuronal activity and legal permission to get potent cannabis, researchers were able to learn more about the munchies than previously known, namely which neurons are firing
