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# Shutting Down the Midnight Fast Food Drive-Thrus
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/2284/
- Published: 2005-09-07T11:31:12.000Z
- Updated: 2005-09-07T11:31:12.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

> 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.

[Link](http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health%5Fmedical/article310795.ece?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).