I feel so stupid asking this

Yeah, I know this is a nooblar question, and I know that marijuana's a stimulant, but I have been told repeatedly that it causes you to gain weight. Is this true? Or merely another bit of anti-drug propoganda aimed at vain teenagers like myself?

 

The munchies are a bitch.

 

LOL I thought about how the munchies might skew their data.

 

I've found, with me anyways, that weed keeps my metabolism quite high. Mix that with eating healthy and staying active and you have nothing to worry about.

Although if your the lazy type of toker who just likes to sit around and eat while high, I'm sure you'd put on a few pounds...

 

thats mostly me...but i been doing that for years and im only 120 pounds....

and doctors use marijauna for patients that have eating disorders or for people that just had cancer and needed to gain there weight back....

IMO the munchies would be the thing that makes you gain weight, and all you have to do for that is eat healthy and junk food...heh im lucky because its genetic for me =)

 

yeah, i am the exact same, eat like crazy and never gain a pound... 160 at 18, and i'm a pretty lean fucker lol. but i KNOW that's just 'cause of my age and metabolism and everything, and it's all gonna go downhill later lol... i'd agree and say it's definitely the munchies that do it, just hold yourself off on the munchies, or make somewhat healthy/small snacks for yourself instead of bags of chips and pizza.

i have to say personally though, i don't really love the munchies... they're good only if you have free food around, otherwise you have to spend money, and that sucks. haha.

 

All my smoking friends are almost scarely thin. I am extremely thin, all my fatter friends don't smoke...
If you don't eat insanely much when you get the 'munchies' you're ok.

The way they treat cancer-people with weed for eating is that it makes you like food more, people getting chemo-therapy can't think of food so it helps.

it doesn't 'make you fat', I think it actually speeds up your system a bit. And in that, it won't make you gain weight at all.

 

marijuana, a stimulant??? not as I know...except maybe the fact it fastens your metabolism a bit


well in rehab there was this girl who said weed caused her to gain 200pounds she was big really big, showed us a pic of her before damn. Munchies

personally it makes me lose weight. Depends on your metabolism I guess, and the quantity of food eaten

 

To be honest, I really dont know but the people I have talked to on this section have said it made them lose weight, then again, I dont really know.

 

First of all... Marijuana is definatly not a stimulant - its a Depressant. Second, Marijuana itself does not cause any change in weight. The only link they have between marijuana and people's weight is the fact that THC is stored in fat in the body. Since weed and the munchies are related, they say thats what causes it.

More excuses to turn people off marijuana - weight gain. There ya go.

 

Marijuana is not a depressant either. It is a mild psychedelic.

 

I cant say it makes me lose weight, but since ive been smoking weed, about 4-5 years, i havent gotten any bigger. Not to make it sound bad, but this is true..it may be my genetics, but the fact is, i have been 5'11 140lbs since my freshman year and i graduated last year..there is a personal fact for ya guys

 

i would consider marijuana more of a stimulant than a depressant, at least for the first hour after a session, considering that it speeds up the heart beat a considerable amount. but at the end of a long day of smoking, once the peak of the high has worn off, it is definately a depressant.

 

You are all wrong it's a intoxicant; stimulant; psychedelic; depressant

 

erowid fiend ^... haha i am guilty too, erowid is the shit. but wouldnt the inclusion of all of the qualities make everybody right, not wrong?

 

That's how it works, man. Weed itself is what holds the secret of peace and harmony! Everyone's right, no one is wrong! Everybooody is somebooodyyyy....nobody aint noboooooodyyyy

 

i know some fat bastards that smoke pot, but whether or not mj had anything to do with it i dont know... it all depends on yer personality.. i know if i didnt want to impress anyone i could easily gain a few pounds with some bud, a couch, and lots of doritos.. but being that i kinda like being fit, i try not to eat too much

 

"If everybody smoked a blunt, relieve the mind, the world could be a better place."

 

No because stimulants and depressants affect dopamine/serotonin/norepinephrine levels and composition, which pot doesnt.

 

its not the weed that makes you gain weight
its your tendencies when you smoke weed that make you gain weight