"munchies" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a snack or the urge to eat something late at night. For example, "I've got the munchies, so I'm going to make some popcorn."
(And order a real pizza if they get the munchies afterwards).
The drug, called rimonabant, stems from studies of the so-called "endocannabinoid" biological pathway that is involved in giving marijuana smokers the "munchies".
Through its famous induction of "the munchies", it stimulates the appetites of those who have lost the desire to eat, such as people suffering the late stages of AIDS.
Even the Hollywood glitterati get the munchies during a heavy night at the Academy Awards.
It was as if Jeremy Paxman had turned Newsnight into a comedy club and started doing observational gags about all-night garages and the munchies.
It was last year that American-Muslim, Safy-Hallan Farah, took the bold step to write about her tumultuous relationship with food in a frank post on global food-purpose website, MUNCHIES: "I'd spend a ridiculous amount of time on pro-anorexia and bulimia sites," she wrote.
I would never knowingly invite a snowboarder into my chalet for a fondue party, they simply wouldn't know what to do and would end up smoking huge reefers and then eating all the cheese in a pique of munchies.
If you think this sounds far-fetched, a vivid new documentary on the issue has just been produced by the website MUNCHIES, as part of a series of films called The Politics of Food, looking at different aspects of food.
The 4am munchies just got a whole lot more convenient in LA, after Sprinkles shop in Beverly Hills created the world's first 24-hour cupcake ATM.
"I'd buy some dope and we'd proceed to get heavily stoned," he writes, explaining that it would give his friend the "munchies".
Set in what appears to be a post-apocalyptic London (quite worryingly, considering the year is 2015), Shank's kids are simply struggling to survive and hustle for food – or "munchies" – in a city that's been damaged by the poverty gap and postcode wars.
