A new medical marijuana plant, developed by Israeli researchers, holds promise for treating anxiety, depression, schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease — without causing the munchies.

The breed apparently causes no buzz of its own. Israeli researchers have bred cannabis plants that look, smell and taste like ordinary marijuana — but lack THC, the active ingredient responsible for the spacy, giddy and sometimes hallucinatory part of pot's high.

The new marijuana isn't just low-THC ditch weed or hemp by a different name. Tzahi Klein of the Israeli company Tikkun Olam and his colleagues have created a strain of pot that lacks THC but is abundant in cannabidiol (CBD), typically the second most common active compound in cannabis.

"It has the same scent, shape and taste as the original plant — it's all the same — but the numbing sensation that users are accustomed to has disappeared," Klein told the Israeli paper Maariv. He said that many patients in his studies felt "tricked" because they thought they'd been given a placebo when they smoked it.

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