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The Adam Ragusea Podcast

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THC Stimulates Your Nervous System

Cannabinoids stimulate the various reward or pleasure centers in our brains. We may have evolved them as a means of incentivizing us to eat. THC stimulates the endocannabinoid system of the human body. This lights up your pleasure centers and makes food taste insanely good. Plus I now read that it stimulates the release of ghrelin, which is the gut hormone that makes you hungry. And the result is the tendency of potheads to just crush any bag of chips within arm's reach.

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