Source: Yahoo! News
“The munchies are one of marijuana’s most famous effects, with countless movies playing up the trope that smoking weed leads to uncontrollable hunger. But a new study is showing that cannabis could actually have surprising effects on your waistline. Researchers at UC Riverside gave cannabis to obese mice and found that not only did the rodents lose weight, but when given a concentrated cannabis oil, the mice also saw striking benefits in their metabolic function. Nicholas DiPatrizio, a UC Riverside professor and the lead author of the study, said he thinks the work could lead to cannabis-based diet therapies. ‘We can develop molecules that can be cannabis based, isolate them and maybe even do better than nature. We are just at the beginning,’ DiPatrizio told SFGATE.” (05/14/26)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/calif-study-finds-evidence-cannabis-120000613.html