Worms get the munchies from cannabis, study shows.
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A study has found that Caenorhabditis elegans worms exposed to cannabis chemicals exhibit a persistent hunger for tasty food, similar to humans. The worms choose to feed for longer than normal and show a stronger preference for their favourite high-quality foods over less nutritious options. The research suggests that the mechanism by which cannabis affects appetite evolved more than 500 million years ago, when the evolutionary paths of C. elegans and humans diverged. The study indicates that C. elegans could be used to study how cannabis affects the human nervous system.
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