Diabolical scientists want to inhibit cannabis receptors to keep you from getting hungry, possibly high
Everyone knows that when you smoke weed you get hungry; the munchies might just be weed’s most famous hallmark (after Seth Rogen’s career). Something happens between your body’s cannabinoid receptors and your desire for food, and that something is magic. But what would happen if you could reverse engineer your body’s receptors and block them to potentially keep you from getting hungry?
That would be terrible!
According to iO9, a couple regular Dr. Evils went about producing a new drug, ominously called JD5037, which has successfully blocked cannabinoid receptors in mice and suppressed their appetites.
The good news: unlike a previous attempt at appetite suppression drug that blocked cannabinoid receptors in the brain, thereby resulting in “serious psychiatric side effects,” JD5037 only blocks the receptors in the body, but not in the brain.
There’s no data yet on whether this new weed weight-loss drug will also block you from getting high (presumably it’s kind of hard to tell if a mouse is baked) but our totally uneducated guess is yes—as go the munchies, so goes the buzz.
Seriously, though, it sounds like the drug could be promising for the obese whom scientists have found are immune to leptin, your body’s chemical appetite suppressant. Scientists found that JD5037 significantly “improved the health of mice” in their study.
July 27, 2012 at 9:45 pm, Malcolm Kyle said:
An appeal to all Prohibitionists:
Most of us know that individuals who use illegal drugs are going to get high—no matter what, so why do you not prefer they acquire them in stores that check IDs and pay taxes? Even if we could afford to put Narcs on every single corner, at least half of them would soon become dealers themselves. Gifting the market in narcotics to ruthless criminals, foreign terrorists and corrupt law enforcement officials is seriously compromising our future.
Why do you wish to continue with a policy that has proven itself to be a poison in the veins of our once so proud & free nation? Even if you cannot bear the thought of people using drugs, there is absolutely nothing you, or any government, can do to stop them. We have spent 40 years and trillions of dollars on this dangerous farce; Prohibition will not suddenly and miraculously start showing different results. Do you actually believe you may personally have something to lose If we were to begin basing our drug policy on science & logic instead of ignorance, hate and lies?
Maybe you're a police officer, a prison guard, or a local/national politician. Possibly you're scared of losing employment, overtime pay, the many kickbacks, and those regular fat bribes. But what good will any of that do you once our society has followed Mexico over the dystopian abyss of dismembered bodies, vats of acid, and marauding thugs carrying gold-plated AK-47s with leopard-skinned gunstocks?
Kindly allow us to forgo the next level of your sycophantic prohibition-engendered mayhem.
Prohibition prevents regulation: legalize, regulate, and tax!
July 28, 2012 at 11:29 am, Mal Cohen said:
and you thought marijuana was bad.
September 04, 2012 at 9:59 pm, Koobecaf Resu said:
Them crazy scientists (government workers..but shh it's a secret) want to turn people into zombies and make everybody eat each others faces off. Hell is in the center of the Earth, what do you expect? your souls are in danger if you use any drugs. If the weed was legal then the government won't make any money from it. They make them illegal so they can make more and more money, i.e fines, court costs, cannabis fines…etc etc.one day currency without value or the microchip 666?
April 19, 2013 at 4:03 pm, Thomas Aquino said:
Since you do not know what you're talking about, never have taken this drug, isn't it just as probable that the stuff will let you get high on pot without "the munchies". Now wouldn't that be something. Why can't people look for "the good" and no "the evil" in things more often?