Researchers at UC Riverside gave cannabis to obese mice and found that not only did the rodents lose weight, but when given a concentrated cannabis oil, the mice also saw striking benefits in their metabolic function. Nicholas DiPatrizio, a UC Riverside professor and the lead author of the study, said he thinks the work could lead to cannabis-based diet therapies.
“We can develop molecules that can be cannabis based, isolate them and maybe even do better than nature. We are just at the beginning,” DiPatrizio told SFGATE.
