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(Independent)   "Munchies" research leads to pill that tackles smoking and obesity   (news.independent.co.uk) divider line 51
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2004-03-10 09:20:55 PM
im first hooray
 
2004-03-10 09:21:34 PM
Okay, I am supposed to want to take a pill that in principle acts to make me anti-high?
 
2004-03-10 09:21:57 PM
I'll take ten.
 
2004-03-10 09:22:16 PM
The first asshat...

hooray!
 
2004-03-10 09:23:05 PM
So, in principle, there will be no more fat chick smokers?
/not that I'd hit one anyways.
 
2004-03-10 09:23:15 PM
i wonder if a bonghit will give me the munchies?
 
2004-03-10 09:24:09 PM
I want to see this kid run

 
2004-03-10 09:28:12 PM
That's great... but will it increase my penis size???
 
2004-03-10 09:28:15 PM
Anyone else think this kid ^----- looks like the Michilen Tire Man?
 
2004-03-10 09:28:50 PM
I'm sure this kid is relieved...





Of course, his mom has got to tranq him first just so he'll calm down enough for her to tell him.
 
2004-03-10 09:30:17 PM
OMFG GOPHER321!
THAT PIC IS GOD!
 
2004-03-10 09:30:28 PM
Now all I need is pill to tackle unemployment and living in the parents' basement.
 
2004-03-10 09:32:50 PM
I submitted this same story yesterday and the farkwad moderators did not approve it.
 
2004-03-10 09:33:49 PM
GOD?
 
2004-03-10 09:35:28 PM
the drug ...was discovered after researchers decided to investigate why cannabis smokers developed the "munchies", the fierce appetite that often accompanies smoking of the drug.???

nonsense! cannabis is a "schedule I" drug in the USA, meaning it has no medical applications and is a danger to the public. if drugs that can help people can be derived from cannabis that means that ....the drug laws.....and maybe even the whole drug war....are ..premised.....on.....lies.*

/impersonation of a drug warrior dying like Landru.
 
2004-03-10 09:37:00 PM
Yahtzee!

I saw three "Cool" tags in a row.

/banging on my 'puter 'cause there's no coins comin' out
 
GSC
2004-03-10 09:38:05 PM
spalding who?
 
2004-03-10 09:39:35 PM
Could you "biggie size" my prescription?
 
2004-03-10 09:41:21 PM
Where have I heard this before?

Can it be Fark?!?!
 
2004-03-10 09:44:15 PM
Quick, someone post Ackbar and Mustard Man so the chiches end quickly.
 
2004-03-10 09:48:58 PM
Cause we all know... it's munchies alone that responsible for...



... this!
 
2004-03-10 09:49:37 PM


 
2004-03-10 09:49:45 PM
... that is a pic of a guy I just posted, right?
 
2004-03-10 09:49:51 PM
Ya know if we legalized marijuana and hemp then the world would be really groovy and we could all wear hemp clothes and cars would be powered by hemp and also we could use hemp soap and blah and blah blah and .... so I was at the phish concert and there was this dude and he was like DUDE! and I was like awww duuuuude.

Hey man, pass that shiat ova hea!

... and where was I ?
 
2004-03-10 09:56:08 PM
way to steal my wind Setion
 
2004-03-10 10:00:04 PM
hahahaha wippit, I dunno what that is, are man boobs NSFW?
 
2004-03-10 10:05:14 PM
Why can't people just stop eating crap?
 
2004-03-10 10:06:57 PM
wippit It looks more like something that just ate a guy...
 
2004-03-10 10:08:56 PM
Warning: Cannabis consumption may lead to short term memory impairment, resulting in repeated postings on FARK.com.
 
2004-03-10 10:17:02 PM
Shouldn't they just stop the smoking? That way you wouldn't get the munchies.
 
2004-03-10 10:20:34 PM
Just switch to shrooms, kill 2 birds with 1 stone...


/badger badger badger badger....
 
2004-03-10 10:24:05 PM
Well, sounds like a good drug, helping people lose weight and quit smoking. I'll just read a little more of the article...

Rimonabant is involved in seven trials in more than 13,000 patients around the world. It works by blocking cannabis receptors in the brain and was discovered after researchers decided to investigate why cannabis smokers developed the "munchies", the fierce appetite that often accompanies smoking of the drug.

WHAT?!!! fark that.
 
2004-03-10 10:26:26 PM
Is anyone else disturbed by the trend of these cureall pills? Can they make a pill that cures laziness and weak-willedness? Because then all the other pills would be obsolete.
 
2004-03-10 10:28:40 PM
"Is anyone else disturbed by the trend of these cureall pills? Can they make a pill that cures laziness and weak-willedness? Because then all the other pills would be obsolete."

It's called Dexedrine. Welcome to 50 years ago.
 
2004-03-10 10:29:20 PM
Beowulf...

They'll be adding it to the tapwater soon enough, just like fluoride!

/get out yer tinfoil hats - is that a helicopter I see hovering out there?
 
2004-03-10 10:32:45 PM
"I forgot to take my pill, because I was high.
I've got the munchies still, because I'm high.
Soon I'll weight a ton, and I know why... hey-ey



Because I was high, because I was high, because I was high-igh...."
 
2004-03-10 10:50:29 PM
God Damn Wippit. . .

You going to give me nightmares reminding me about my short-lived job as a special education respite worker. Can you imagine having to change the diaper on that kid if he's in a bite-and-scratch mood?

I once interviewed at a home where a kid just like that was running around everywhere, and he was 6'2", and 220 lbs. The whole house reeked of urine, and they did not own any pets. Quite ironically, the social services client in question ate everything in sight, and turned into a big pudge.

Hopefully he and his lazy ass parents could benefit from these new meds.

Of course, this stuff is nothing new. There was Fenfen and Meridia several years ago, both of which respectively caused severe diarrhea, and heart palpitations.
 
2004-03-10 10:58:04 PM
"I'm poopy..."
 
2004-03-11 12:08:44 AM
Hoorah! I can smoke my bong and lose my spare tire.

Will the wonders of science never cease?
 
2004-03-11 12:11:10 AM
It seems to me, as a God-fearing Jesus-talkin-guy, that the Good Lord would not have given us cannabinoid receptors unless He wanted them to receive cannabinoids.

Much like the question of "deviant" sex. If God, blessed be He, had not wanted us to put weeners in our mouths and butts then He would have made sure they did not fit.

Perfect peace unto you all.
 
2004-03-11 12:12:28 AM
you know, the flailing 'tard reminds me of those women in America's Funniest Home Videos....

Especially the large woman who opens a box, finds an engagement ring inside, and goes into histrionics..

"OMAGOD! OMAGOD! OMAGOD!"
 
2004-03-11 12:17:40 AM
Well, you can smoke your bong and lose your spare tire, but you won't be getting high. This blocks the cannibis receptors in the brain, so I would assume smoking weed will have no effect on someone on the drug, just like SSRIs prevent MDMA from having an effect.
 
2004-03-11 12:30:57 AM
NOOOOoooooooo!!
 
2004-03-11 03:11:05 AM
I think I've heard of this, it's called amphetamine salt.
 
2004-03-11 03:14:18 AM
Also, how about curing chemical addictions by not consuming chemicals, instead of just consuming different chemicals to take the place of the ones you're quitting? Or better yet, just start taking nicotine lozenges. The worst part of smoking is the smoke, the nicotine's health effects are a slap on the wrist beside what the smoke does to you.
 
2004-03-11 04:20:50 AM
...SSRIs prevent MDMA from having an effect.

*snicker*
 
2004-03-11 04:25:59 AM
don't SSRIs actually do the exact opposite? ;)
 
2004-03-11 04:44:34 AM
It's 3:43 in Russellville Arkansas. There is an info-mercial telling me that the Food Saver will keep my nuts from going rancid.
 
2004-03-11 05:41:08 AM
I thought SSRIs just blocked the damage but you could still feel the effects (albeit lessened)?

And Adderall is the cure-all for laziness, living in your parents basement, etc.
 
2004-03-11 11:16:33 AM
that article talks to people as if they were children.
Walking promotes weight loss. According to a recent study, the more you walk, the more weight you are likely to lose.
aaaand? when was this news?
oh yeah, when people became so reliant on the media that their minds went to hell.

"Libria, I congratulate you. At last peace reigns in the heart of man. At last war is but a word whose meaning fades from our understanding. At last, we are whole. Librians, there is a disease in the heart of man. It's symptom is hate. It's symptom is anger. It's symptom is rage. It's symptom is war. The disease is human emotion. But Libria, I congratulate you, for there is a cure for this disease. At the cost of the dizzying highs of human emotion, we have suppressed its abysmal lows. And you, as a society, have embraced this cure. Prozium. Now we are at peace with ourselves and human kind is one. War is gone. Hate, a memory. We are our own conscience now, and it is this conscience that guides us to rate EC-10, for emotional content, all those things that might tempt us to feel, again, and destroy them. Librians, you have won. Against all odds, and your own natures. You, have, survived."


/stupid cult movie fan
 
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