Reuters has a fascinating story this morning:

LONDON (Reuters) - Human trials of an experimental treatment for obesity derived from cannabis, which is commonly associated with stimulating hunger, are scheduled to begin in the second half of this year, Britain's GW Pharmaceuticals Plc announced Tuesday.

Several other companies, such as Sanofi-Aventis, which is investigating Acomplia, are working on new drugs that will switch off the brain circuits that make people hungry when they smoke cannabis.

GW Pharma, however, says it has derived a treatment from cannabis that could help suppress hunger. "The cannabis plant has 70 different cannabinoids in it and each has a different affect on the body," GW Managing Director Justin Gover told Reuters in a telephone interview.

"Some can stimulate your appetite, and some in the same plant can suppress your appetite. It is amazing both scientifically and commercially," he said.

Much of the 1960s was just a blur for me, and frankly I’m probably better off not remembering. I’m sure I caused a lot of headache or heartache for various “adults” who thought they had some kind of responsibility for how I was turning out.

But I do have some very fond memories of 200 AM trips to 7-11s loading up on potato chips and Fritos. And oh yeah! Twinkies! Oh my goodness, how could we forget Twinkies with that incredibly soft, sweet cream center which sort of clings to your teeth and coats your tongue and, you know what I mean, man?

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And, umm….. red Twizzlers
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Where was I?

Oh, right. Anyway, what’s the point of getting your head on if you don’t get the munchies? The Frito crunch was like a minor earthquake, cascading along your jawbone and transferring the sound waves by induction through the middle ear right to the uhh

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And another thing, what’s the point of getting lit and losing track of what you were saying half way through the sentence if you aren’t nibbling on something? When conversations seem to last two days you need food at hand to sustain your energies. Or something like that.

GW submitted Sativex for assessment by several European regulators in September, and hopes to secure approval for the UK, Denmark, Spain and the Netherlands in the second half of this year at the earliest, the company said on Tuesday.

GW's marijuana plants are grown indoors in a secret location in Southern England.

Secret location. Sigh.