Looking good my tribe, I'm back for a month-enough time to plant outdoors and then off again. I spent part of yesterday at the Vancouver 420 party at Sunset Beach. Lots of interesting product there, people selling everything from Diamonds for $25 a gram to buckets of Magic Mushrooms for $3 bucks a gram. Too bad the weather was shitty yesterday, but I was impressed with the ingenuity of those people trying to make a buck. This morning I read that even nematode worms get the munchies, who woulda thought eh....
Worms get the munchies too when they are given weed, study finds
Researchers say when you give a worm weed, it gets the munchies.(NNehring via Canva)
By
Jordan Gartner
Published: Apr. 20, 2023 at 2:37 PM PDT|Updated: 15 hours ago
(Gray News) - Marijuana is known for giving people munchies and it appears it also has the same effect on worms.
According to a new study
shared online by the journal
Current Biology, nematode worms reacted to cannabis the same way most humans do.
“Cannabinoids make nematodes hungrier for their favored foods and less hungry for their non-favored foods,” said Shawn Lockery, of the
University of Oregon. “Thus, the effects of cannabinoids in nematodes parallels the effects of marijuana on human appetites.”
The team said the tiny nematode worms are smaller than a human eyelash and they decided to soak the worms in cannabinoids, the active substances found in weed, for “a Friday afternoon experiment.”
According to Lockery, they were inspired in 2015 for the experiment when cannabis became legal in Oregon.
“At the time, our laboratory at the university was deeply involved in assessing nematode food preferences,” Lockery said. “And the paper is the result of many years of follow-up research.”
The team shared that their research ultimately revealed that the worms, like humans, engage in hedonic feeding, an occurrence more commonly known as the munchies.
“Nematodes diverged from the lineage leading to mammals more than 500 million years ago,” Lockery said. “It is truly remarkable that the effects of cannabinoids on appetite are preserved through this length of evolutionary time.”
Stay well friends, happy outdoor planting in the next month.