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:

Mello.as.Hello Reviewed by Mello.as.Hello on 11-11-2005. Conditioned Response to THC 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 Rating: 5

[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!)

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.