the reason you get the munchies when
stoned is because the psychoactive
ingredient in marijuana thc makes its
way into your bloodstream either through
the lungs or by eating it through the
stomach and then the thc makes its way
to your brain here the thc increases the
hormone ghrelin which is the hunger
hormone this is released in your body
which signals your body to eat it makes
you hungry the reason we know thc does
this is because we got a bunch of mice
stoned and saw that they're ghrelin
increased marijuana also distends your
stomach making it physically bigger this
is why it is given to cancer patients to
increase hunger also scientists got some
mice stoned and left some sober and gave
them oils to smell and this stoned mice
would continue to sniff the oil even
when they got bored alluding to the fact
that maybe marijuana increases our
senses and makes us just enjoy the smell
and our food more