Study: Why Pot Smokers Are Skinnier

[Torie]

And this, despite the fact that the munchies thing is apparently real. Who knew?

[RFayette]

If true, then it would be worth looking into modifying marijuana to eliminate/reduce the hallucinogenic effects and use it to help facilitate weight loss and treat diabetes/pre-diabetes.

[bedstuy]

If true, then it would be worth looking into modifying marijuana to eliminate/reduce the hallucinogenic effects and use it to help facilitate weight loss and treat diabetes/pre-diabetes.

I think you're misunderstanding the study.  They're not necessarily saying that the cannabis is causing people to lose weight.  It's that people who smoke marijuana tend to be skinnier.

My explanation would be that people smoke marijuana as a recreational/emotional regulator instead of using food/sweets/alcohol.  Instead of drinking 8 beers or eating an entire pint of ice cream, they're smoking weed.  Weed is a 0 calorie way to make yourself feel good.  If it didn't make you feel good, you would find something else to do. 

[RFayette]

If true, then it would be worth looking into modifying marijuana to eliminate/reduce the hallucinogenic effects and use it to help facilitate weight loss and treat diabetes/pre-diabetes.

I think you're misunderstanding the study.  They're not necessarily saying that the cannabis is causing people to lose weight.  It's that people who smoke marijuana tend to be skinnier.

My explanation would be that people smoke marijuana as a recreational/emotional regulator instead of using food/sweets/alcohol.  Instead of drinking 8 beers or eating an entire pint of ice cream, they're smoking weed.  Weed is a 0 calorie way to make yourself feel good.  If it didn't make you feel good, you would find something else to do. 

It does say though that people eat up to 600 more calories when high, so I'm not sure if what you're saying is true.

What I meant by "if true," was that if further studies suggested a causative link between weight loss and cannibas use, then its medicinal properties should be extracted while removing the negative hallucinogenic effects.

[Ebowed]

If true, then it would be worth looking into modifying marijuana to eliminate/reduce the hallucinogenic effects and use it to help facilitate weight loss and treat diabetes/pre-diabetes.

I think you're misunderstanding the study.  They're not necessarily saying that the cannabis is causing people to lose weight.  It's that people who smoke marijuana tend to be skinnier.

My explanation would be that people smoke marijuana as a recreational/emotional regulator instead of using food/sweets/alcohol.  Instead of drinking 8 beers or eating an entire pint of ice cream, they're smoking weed.  Weed is a 0 calorie way to make yourself feel good.  If it didn't make you feel good, you would find something else to do. 

That's not what the study itself suggests, really, at all.

[tik 🪀✨]

Without reading the study, I'm going to assume it's because their useless pieces of waste who don't do their proper amount of exercise, and thus lack the muscular bulk of a regular human being.

I didn't read this post but I'm assuming it's something insightful.

[angus]

Hi.  My name is Torie and I like to smoke pot.  I like it a lot.  However, being a lawyer,  I find that I constantly feel the urge to defend its use.  Here's a study from Harvard, no less, that absolutely proves that smoking weed is not only cool and fun and hip and chic, but also "healthy."

Dude, give it a rest.  Unless you have been hiding under a stone for the past two decades, you must know that the War on Drugs is about as popular as hemorrhoids.  No need to trot out such articles to convince us.  We get it:  you should be allowed to enjoy your herb. 

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Hi.  My name is Torie and I like to smoke pot.  I like it a lot.  However, being a lawyer,  I find that I constantly feel the urge to defend its use.  Here's a study from Harvard, no less, that absolutely proves that smoking weed is not only cool and fun and hip and chic, but also "healthy."

Dude, give it a rest.  Unless you have been hiding under a stone for the past two decades, you must know that the War on Drugs is about as popular as hemorrhoids.  No need to trot out such articles to convince us.  We get it:  you should be allowed to enjoy your herb. 

He won't be satisfied until the US House agrees. They voted down all the weed related amendments today with 190 to 205 ayes. Usually splitting both parties but pubbies usually were more anti-weed and Dems more pro overall. I missed the hemp vote though.

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Hi.  My name is Torie and I like to smoke pot.  I like it a lot.  However, being a lawyer,  I find that I constantly feel the urge to defend its use.  Here's a study from Harvard, no less, that absolutely proves that smoking weed is not only cool and fun and hip and chic, but also "healthy."

Dude, give it a rest.  Unless you have been hiding under a stone for the past two decades, you must know that the War on Drugs is about as popular as hemorrhoids.  No need to trot out such articles to convince us.  We get it:  you should be allowed to enjoy your herb. 

He won't be satisfied until the US House agrees. They voted down all the weed related amendments today with 190 to 205 ayes. Usually splitting both parties but pubbies usually were more anti-weed and Dems more pro overall. I missed the hemp vote though.

The war on drugs is probably still more popular than Congress.

[Ebowed]

Without reading the study, I'm going to assume it's because their useless pieces of waste who don't do their proper amount of exercise, and thus lack the muscular bulk of a regular human being.

I didn't read this post but I'm assuming it's something insightful.

I read it for you, but I regret it.

[angus]

The war on drugs is probably still more popular than Congress.

Everything is more popular than Congress.  Well, except lawyers.  Their commercials are entertaining, though.  My son and I always get a kick out of them.

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[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

angus, cut Torie a break.  He can troll us on the board he moderates with impunity.  Did he mention he's a rich, gay attorney by the way?

[Torie]

Hi.  My name is Torie and I like to smoke pot.  I like it a lot.  However, being a lawyer,  I find that I constantly feel the urge to defend its use.  Here's a study from Harvard, no less, that absolutely proves that smoking weed is not only cool and fun and hip and chic, but also "healthy."

Dude, give it a rest.  Unless you have been hiding under a stone for the past two decades, you must know that the War on Drugs is about as popular as hemorrhoids.  No need to trot out such articles to convince us.  We get it:  you should be allowed to enjoy your herb. 

Angus, I honestly did not know about this particular virtue of weed, and just felt the need to get the good news out. I don't obsess much about the pot laws anyway. They are easily evaded. It's a lower tier issue to me. I am more concerned about cleaning up the those certain Augean stables known as prisons, including getting the druggies out, firing a bunch of prison guards, and culling out the prison guard thug cohort of same.  In other words, my motive in putting up this thread had nothing to do with the issue of pot legalization. And hey, didn't you find it of some vague interest yourself, Angus? 

[Torie]

angus, cut Torie a break.  He can troll us on the board he moderates with impunity.  Did he mention he's a rich, gay attorney by the way?

Hi Grumps. Since you smoke pot, what's your excuse for being overweight? I think using the words "troll" and "trolling" should be intractable myself. They are the most used, and abused, words in the English language, on this Forum. It's time to stamp it out. I think I will bring that up with Nym.

[publicunofficial]

I smoke pot a lot, and I'm hella fat.

[© tweed]

I smoked pot recently for the first time in over 5 years and it did, among various other epiphanies, unite me more with my physical body, which I'd been ignoring for a while as it slowly was being laid to waste.