Conditioned Response to THC

[Mello.as.Hello]

It's been proven that the consumption of marijuana (THC and other accompanying cannibinoids) are capable of activating the hunger center in your brain (hence, the munchies :thumbsup: ).

But I have a theory, and I really hope it's wrong.


If someone was to smoke regularly (easily 3-5 times a day), and often to settle one's stomach, wouldn't your body eventually come to depend on the drug to produce hunger?

I say this because I'm pretty sure I fucked up my appetite over the years by smoking before I eat, and smoking when I wake up, and before I sleep. I'm rarely hungry, and when I am I never seem to actually eat until I smoke.


Just wondering if anyone had any corroborating evidence to back up this left-of-center theory of mine. :what:

[ShamanicHippy]

no I dont think this is possible because THC doesnt actually produce the hunger hormone (yeah there is one, it was recently discovered by a harvard researcher) so I dont think you could get a conditioned response. but I dont know.

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

It's been proven that the consumption of marijuana (THC and other accompanying cannibinoids) are capable of activating the hunger center in your brain (hence, the munchies :thumbsup: ).

But I have a theory, and I really hope it's wrong.


If someone was to smoke regularly (easily 3-5 times a day), and often to settle one's stomach, wouldn't your body eventually come to depend on the drug to produce hunger?

I say this because I'm pretty sure I fucked up my appetite over the years by smoking before I eat, and smoking when I wake up, and before I sleep. I'm rarely hungry, and when I am I never seem to actually eat until I smoke.


Just wondering if anyone had any corroborating evidence to back up this left-of-center theory of mine. :what:

I back it up.. i found when i was dry for a week last time that i hardly ate.. i'd miss breakfast.. i'd eat lunch at 2pm, i wouldn't finish my dinner.

Now, when i have weed i am always hungry and always eat all of the food i am given (plus a boatload more!) :D

I don't think you can depend on weed to be hungry, but i believe you could become dependant and not eat proper without it.. but you'd eat eventually ;)

[ShamanicHippy]

yeah I must revise my opinion in light of 3 sheets wisdom. you might not be hungry for a while. but you sure as hell would get hungry sooner or later.

[lateralus]

I know people who've gotten cannabis cards because they've smoked for so long they can't become hungry without it. I know people who've smoked every night, so they can't fall asleep without it.

When I saw the thread title, I thought you were talking about conditioned responses from the media and anti drug propaganda. Of course there are conditioned responses: I think a lot of the people who act all lame and annoying when they're high do it just because they think that's what marijuana does to you.

[lateralus]

Also, welcome back Mello. You don't post very much anymore; are you posting in the members' only forum? You were one of the first names I saw when lurking around these forums debating whether or not to sign up. :)

[daZenfmeister]

He was one of the first people i saw on these forums too. and I stongly agree, yesterday and the day before i didnt smoke anything and i swear to god i didnt eat anything until 6:00 pm on the second day. it was so weird, i knew i was hungry but didnt want to eat...

[IntrepidS]

It's very much possible, but it might not be so much a conditioned response as a natural side-effect that the consumtion of Marijuana at larger quantities produces, that is the general loss of appetite when one is not under its effects.

[lateralus]

It's very much possible, but it might not be so much a conditioned response as a natural side-effect that the consumtion of Marijuana at larger quantities produces, that is the general loss of appetite when one is not under its effects.Haha IntrepidS was too. I remember that old anime avatar. And D.J. Tiesto's awesome.

[Whos Carl]

Use a vapouriser because that doesnt make you hungry because it doesnt realise the cabbinoids (sp?) which are the things that make you hungry.

[Seag420]

whos carl dude, the vaporizer, or a good one at least will ONLY realease cannaboids,THC being the main cannaboid, my volcano makes me hungry as hell after i toke up on a ballon of nice skunk. also, mello, belive it or not, decreased appertite is one of the few physical withdrawl symptoms that regular tokers experience, lay of the weed for long enough and the natural munchies will return

[HeLTeR.SKeLTeR]

you will defenetly eat less when you dont smoke, but you wont starve your self to death either so why worry?


i think the apetite comes back after a while of being dry

[Mello.as.Hello]

If you feel particularly inclined, you can look back at some of my posts and see that I ONLY use a vaporizer these days. Also, I understand that using marijuana produces hunger, and that the body can become used to that (and will change back after stopping).

HOWEVER- I have tried stopping, for several weeks at a time. Still not hungry, still not eating. It was pretty fierce. Either way, I was just posing a question, nothing too big. :smokin:

[ShamanicHippy]

Use a vapouriser because that doesnt make you hungry because it doesnt realise the cabbinoids (sp?) which are the things that make you hungry.
yeah it does. THC is a cannabinoid.

[Whos Carl]

yeah it does. THC is a cannabinoid.
Sorry if i have got it wrong but I have been reading about vapourisers and that point came up about if you vapourise then it wont realise the stuff that makes u hungry if im wrong my badd.