Why Smoking Pot Makes You So Hungry

Why Smoking Pot Makes You So Hungry

If you’ve ever smoked weed, chances are you’ve also taken that regrettable trip to 7 Eleven and stocked up on cheese puffs, microwave burritos, and, well, everything else edible. Then, when you wake up surrounded in wrappers, you wonder: WHY?

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Why Weed Makes You… You… Huh?

Why Weed Makes You... You... Huh?

Scientists have long suspected that THC somehow affects the hippocampus region of the brain, the bit responsible for controlling short-term memory, but they have never been able to prove it. Turns out that’s because they were looking at the wrong grey matter.

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How To Pass a Urine Test (Or At Least Stand a Fighting Chance)

How To Pass a Urine Test (Or At Least Stand a Fighting Chance)

You’ve got enough to worry about for that upcoming job interview without stressing over whether or not you’ll be judged by what you pee into a cup. And sometimes it’s just too late to go all the way straight-and-narrow. Fortunately there are ways of maximizing the chance that your future employment won’t be sidetracked by Friday night’s doobie. Here’s what you need to know to have your best chance at passing a urinalysis test.

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Gadget Lab Podcast: A Smartphone With a Vaporizer Module

In celebration of 4/20 on Sunday, Mat and Mike spend this week’s show getting high — on technology!



Rebranding Weed So It’s Not Just For Potheads Anymore

Rebranding Weed So It's Not Just For Potheads Anymore

With marijuana legal in two states and approved for medicinal use in about 20 more, this year’s 4/20 is gonna be epic, bro! But even as marijuana is being embraced by the mainstream, its image has been left behind in the 1960s. It’s time to rebrand weed.

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Clever Crook Uses Heat Vision Drone to Hunt Down Weed and Steal It

Clever Crook Uses Heat Vision Drone to Hunt Down Weed and Steal It

The police have long used thermal imaging cameras to detect marijuana growing operations. Now, thanks to drones, crooks are getting into the weed-finding game too. Except in their case, they’re trying to find the weed so they can steal it.

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How Yesterday’s Drugs Became The Medicines Of Today

How Yesterday's Drugs Became The Medicines Of Today

My sister is a witch. Or, more precisely, a Wiccan astrologer and tarot reader. Growing up as a kid who worshipped Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, I found it hard to square her worldview with my own.

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Scientists Find a Marijuana-Blocking Compound Made by Your Brain

Scientists Find a Marijuana-Blocking Compound Made by Your Brain

Marijuana may make you feel nice, but according to new research, your brain may not want to go along for the ride: turns out, when your brain senses THC, it produces a hormone that counteracts the drug’s effect. Buzzkill.

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The Forest Service Spent $100,000 on Drones It Can’t Even Use

The Forest Service Spent $100,000 on Drones It Can't Even Use

Everyone knows by now that Americans aren’t thrilled about the use of domestic drones. So if you’re a government agency and decide to invest many thousands of taxpayer dollars on surveillance drones, it’d be good if you checked to see if you can actually fly them first.

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“Nasal Ranger” Smelloscope Will Save Denver From Stinky Pot

"Nasal Ranger" Smelloscope Will Save Denver From Stinky Pot

Colorado’s newly legalized marijuana industry has had an unforeseen dark side: pungent dankness running wild on the noses of innocent citizens. Only a mechanical hero could save them. Call in the Nasal Ranger.

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