by Jamie Seabrook, Jasna Twynstra, Jason Gilliland, Rawan Alfares, The Conversation
Cannabis has a reputation for making people hungry. Popular culture has long joked about the "munchies," and many people assume that students who use cannabis naturally have poorer diets than those who don't.
Our latest research suggests the story is more complicated.
As researchers who study the health behaviors of university students, we surveyed more than 1,500 students at a large Canadian university to better understand the relationship between cannabis use and diet quality. At first glance, the findings appeared to support what many people might expect. Students who had used cannabis in the previous month reported slightly poorer overall diet quality than students who had not.
But that relationship changed when we looked at the bigger picture.
