Marijuana Makes Life Sweeter!

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A series of Japanese studies has found that marijuana enhances the taste of sweet foods.

Sweet taste responses were enhanced by endocannabinoids in every case. The effect was specific for sweet taste, as endocannibinoids had no effect on responses to sour, salty, bitter or umami taste stimuli.

The study which used mice, looked at the sweet taste receptors and how cannabis reacts with them. There are also sweet taste receptors in our intestines and pancreas. So this finding may help find solutions to obesity and diabetes.

http://www.monell.org/news/news_releases/endocannabinoids

 

[CANNACO-OP]

Just read it this morning.......nice little article you found also...

here was mine

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/12/does-marijuana-make-sweet-taste-sweeter.html

 

[BLUNToPOTomuss]

No wonder Im fat!!!!!

 

[Hash Zeppelin]

a bowl a day keeps the shrink away

 

[Kola Radical]

I knew it. Cannabis combines with the chocolate receptors in the brain to increase the power of orgasms.

 

[mpd]

They studies the sweet response and took no notice of the health effects of the munchies in general upon stoners? That's not sweet, but I can look at my waistline and see that the munchies have begun to take their toll of me. Hmmm, sounds like a stoner poll in the making...

 

[THE GENERAL]

im hungry

 

[highonmt]

endo vs phyto

endo vs phyto

This study used an endo cannabinoid which are a group of compounds produced in the human body that have affinity for the cb1 receptor (cannabinoid receptor 1) among other things and are active in many systems within the human body. Here is an image of a known endo-cannabinoid. Adandamide.

The phytocannabinoids in cannabis are structually different than endocannabinoids and have diffuse structures roughly based on a dibenzyl pyran skeleton. Here is a like to a wiki with lots of great cannabinoid info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid#Cannabinol.

So there is no real proof that Cannabis causes this same effect.
MMMMWhy cant I stop eating these Christmas cookies? They are just soooo goood.
HM

 

[Rollem&Smokem]

For me just the smell of a sticky Icky bud makes my taste buds make the worst tasty little debbie snack food taste that much sweeter

 

[Ocean Grown]

FINALLY!

I have an excuse to explain the 634 packages of peanut butter cups I bought last month!

 

[Blue Dot]

This study used an endo cannabinoid which are a group of compounds produced in the human body that have affinity for the cb1 receptor (cannabinoid receptor 1) among other things and are active in many systems within the human body. Here is an image of a known endo-cannabinoid. Adandamide.

The phytocannabinoids in cannabis are structually different than endocannabinoids and have diffuse structures roughly based on a dibenzyl pyran skeleton. Here is a like to a wiki with lots of great cannabinoid info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid#Cannabinol.

So there is no real proof that Cannabis causes this same effect.
MMMMWhy cant I stop eating these Christmas cookies? They are just soooo goood.
HM

I think the structures of the endo and the phyto are significantly alike to cause the same activation.

I mean it works like that for the other types of cannabinoid activation so why would it be different for these "sweet" receptors?