Marijuana may make sleep worse, especially for regular users, study finds – Cannabis Business Executive

It’s a common assumption among marijuana users: Using weed will help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Scientists, however, aren’t so sure that’s true.

“This is an understudied but important area, as many people are increasingly turning to cannabis products as sleep aids,” said sleep specialist Wendy Troxel, a senior behavioral scientist at RAND Corporation, who was not involved in the study.

“But we really lack solid evidence demonstrating whether cannabis helps or hurts sleep,” Troxel added.

Moderate consumption — using weed less than 20 days during the past month — didn’t create short sleep problems, but people were 47% more likely to snooze nine or more hours a night, the study also found.

Why is short and long sleep a problem? [Read more at CNN]