Shutting Down the Midnight Fast Food Drive-Thrus

A natural constituent of cannabis can suppress the appetite and may open the door to a new class of drugs for treating obesity, a scientist has said.

Professor Roger Pertwee, a neuropharmacologist at Aberdeen University, said it was well known that cannabis stimulated the appetite, but not widely known that the plant also contained substances that produced the opposite effect.

"We've discovered to our surprise that cannabis, as well as containing a drug that boosts appetite, contains a drug which has a blocking effect," he said.

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