interesting read.  wonder who the funders of the research might be.  but nice to hear positives x@ it.

um my thought--sure, 'cause they smoke instead of eat to deal with stress, etc. calories in calories out. It may increase appetite, but gives a calorie free venue for the "head hunger"; and I am of the opinion that "head hunger" aka psyche issues with food is the bigger contributor to *most* obesity. hmmmmmm

Hummm, if they happen to need further testing on this and are looking for test subjects, I'm available.  LoL

me too me too

hmm maybe if we just grind it up in the food processor, sprinkle it fruitfully into our spaghetti sauces we could pass it off as Italian seasoning LOL

Remembers back in the wagon wheel days I was skinny when I took part in the exercise of this subject matter.  Now I am skinny because of a newer subject matter- I wonder if they both would of equaled out $ wise? lol
Kelly/tink

works well as long as we are not putting it in baked goods.... ROFL..

"Another possibility is that components of cannabis may help people lose weight. If this turns out to be the case, researchers should investigate which components these might be and try to put them into drug form"

It figures drug companies would get there hands on this. Then a small fortune to make a cannabis pill, when they could just legalize MJ and let the adults handle it.

As an addiction researcher, it doesn't seem so surprising to me. Here's another study that looked at young adults.

That being said, pot smoking leads to LOTS of problems, esp. in young adults, including increased risk for schizophrenia. well and it really screws up your brain, but whatever. Who cares about your brain as long as you are thin, right? ;)

Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2010 Nov;36(6):350-6. Epub 2010 Oct 12.

Cannabis use and obesity and young adults.

Hayatbakhsh MR, O'Callaghan MJ, Mamun AA, Williams GM, Clavarino A, Najman JM.

Source

School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia. [email protected]

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

There is shortage of evidence about the relationship between use of cannabis and obesity. Objectives: This study aimed to examine the association between cannabis use and overweight/obesity in young adults.

METHODS:

Data were from a 21-year follow-up of mothers and their children recruited into the Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy (MUSP), a longitudinal pre-birth cohort. The study is based on 2566 young adults (1264 males and 1302 females) who had data available on cannabis use and age of initiation to use of cannabis and BMI at the 21-year follow-up (MUSP children). Those who did not provide data on cannabis use and BMI were excluded from the analysis.

RESULTS:

Frequency of cannabis use and body mass index (BMI) was assessed at the 21-year follow-up. Potential confounders were prospectively measured between the child's birth and the 21-year follow-up. Some 50.9% of young adults reported use of cannabis in the last month or year and 34.1% had BMI ≤ 25. Multivariate analysis showed that those who had used cannabis were less likely to be categorised in the BMI ≥ 25 group with the least prevalence of overweight/obesity being observed in every day cannabis users (odds ratio = .2; 95% confidence interval [CI]:.1-.4). CONCLUSIONS AND SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE: The existing data suggest lower prevalence of overweight and obesity among young adult cannabis users. Further research is needed to examine the mechanism of this association.

Never heard the phrase "Social Doper" before.  I wonder why?

The main side effect of habitually smoking weed that I have observed is apathy.