Why do you get hungry after smoking weed?

Answer 1

Actually, what it does is bind with a certain neural receptor in your brain responsible for taking care of Ghrelin levels and makes it so your body has no off switch for when satiation is hit. Or in other words, when you smoke its like breaking the off switch on your hunger drive leaving you in a constant state of hunger.

Answer 2

The active ingredient in marijuana (THC) is very chemically similar to the chemical in your body that tells your brain that you are "hungry". Normally, this chemical is released into the bloodstream in response to an empty stomach. It circulates in the blood until it reaches its target receptors in the brain, where it binds to the receptor. This binding causes a signal cascade which then "tells" the brain that you are hungry. When THC is circulating in the bloodstream (after smoking or ingesting marijuana), it is capable of binding to this "hunger" receptor (due to the chemical similarity), which then stimulates the same signal cascade which tells your brain that you are hungry. Therefore, even if you have just eaten, your brain gets fooled by THC into thinking that you are "hungry".

Answer 3

You hungry because smoking increases your metabolism

Answer 4

It's called getting the munchies and nobody knows exactly why, but it's because of that property that marijuana helps cancer patients eat rather than throw up.

Answer 5

depends on the person, but most of the time, when people smoke, they get the "munchies" and eat everything

Answer 6

I don't know, but if I were hungry all the time, i'd quit doing weed. Just an opinion.

Answer 7

yes, marijuana induces hunger, also known as getting the "munchies"

Answer 8

you get the munchies!

Answer 9

MUNCHIES