Sorry, Weed Probably Won’t Help You Sleep
Especially if you use it every day.
If you thought weed was helping you chill out, you might want to listen up. New research suggests it might actually have the opposite effect on your sleep.
A new study found that people who reported being regular marijuana users were nearly twice as likely to report having sleep problems as people who only occasionally light up or don’t smoke at all.
Research on the relationship between sleep and marijuana is still pretty scarce ― and this one, small pilot study is not necessarily conclusive evidence, study author Deirdre Conroy, associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan, told The Huffington Post.
But, she added: “Daily use of marijuana [was linked to] the most sleep disturbances.”
For the study, researchers surveyed 98 people who identified themselves as either daily marijuana users, occasional marijuana users who smoked at least once in the past month and...
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