If you talk to someone who has struggled from sleeping diseases such as insomnia as an adult, chances are high that person has either tried using marijuana stocks or cannabis, for sleep or has had the thought cross his or her mind.
This is mirrored in a number of ways of cannabinoid and marijuana-derived medicines available to improve your sleep such as, Nabilone, Bronabinol and Marinol. It’s also a common reason why pot users search for medical cards.
While there are still many questions to be answered, existing research indicates that the effects of marijuana on sleep vary on many factors, including individual differences, weed concentrations and the frequency of use.
The ability to access marijuana is growing rapidly. As of last Novemenber, 28 states across the U.S. and the District of Columbia had legalized medical marijuana.
Research on the effects of marijuana and sleep in humans has largely been compiled of inconsistent studies leading back to the 1970s. Researchers looking to learn how cannabis affects the sleeping brain have studied volunteers in the sleep laboratory and measured sleep stages and sleep continuity. Some studies displayed that users’ ability to fall and stay asleep advanced. A small number of participants also had a moderate increase in slow wave sleep, also known as the deepest stage of sleep.
Yet, once a study stopped using marijuana at night, their sleeping patterns worsens among the withdrawal period. Over the last ten years, research has focused more on the use of pot for medical purposes. Individuals with insomnia seem to use medical cannabis for sleep at a higher rate. Up to 65 percent of former cannabis users identified poor sleep as a reason for relapsing.
This research signals that, while motivation to use marijuana for sleep is high, and at first might be beneficial to sleep, these improvements could dwindle over time.
We know that marijuana is still known as a Scheduled I substance, meaning the government doesn’t consider marijuana to be medicinally useful due to lack of research to endorse its benefits. This has created an obstacle to research, as only one university throughout the U.S. , the University of Mississippi, is granted access by the National Institute of Drug Abuse to grow cannabis for research.
Currently, cannabis’s effect on sleep looks to be highly variable, depending on the person; the amount a person uses the drug, the type of marijuana and concentration, manner of ingestion and a number of additional factors. Possibly the future will yield more positive findings.
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