Researchers got tiny worms high on cannabis to see how it affected their food preferences and found striking similarities between them and us. The discovery could lead to the development of targeted drug therapies.

The phenomenon brought on by cannabis use and known colloquially as ‘the munchies’ has been known about for centuries, although scientists have a fancy term for it: hedonic amplification of eating.

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Hedonism is the ethical theory that proposes that pleasure represents the highest good and that the proper aim of human life is to seek pleasure and self-indulgence. It follows, then, the hedonic amplification of eating that follows the smoking or ingestion of cannabis refers to a heightened desire to eat foods that are pleasurable.

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