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Why does smoking marijuana give people the munchies? Yale University researchers got dozens of lab mice stoned in order to find out.
Previous scientific studies (and anecdotal evidence) show that when people and animals are exposed to the active ingredients in marijuana they are driven to eat long after they should feel full.
"Everyone knows that if you smoke dope after Thanksgiving dinner you will still go back and eat more -- sometimes much more," said Tamas Horvath, a professor of neurobiology at Yale. "We were interested to find out why."
