“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?
“Large population-based studies show that both short sleep and long sleep are associated with an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes, as well as the long-term progression of things like atherosclerosis, diabetes, coronary artery disease and any of the major cardiovascular diseases,” said lead study author Calvin Diep, who is resident in the department of anesthesiology and pain medicine at the University of Toronto.
“It seems with sleep there’s kind of this ‘Goldilocks phenomenon’ where there’s an amount that ‘just right,'” Diep said.
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“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?
“Large population-based studies show that both short sleep and long sleep are associated with an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes, as well as the long-term progression of things like atherosclerosis, diabetes, coronary artery disease and any of the major cardiovascular diseases,” said lead study author Calvin Diep, who is resident in the department of anesthesiology and pain medicine at the University of Toronto.
“It seems with sleep there’s kind of this ‘Goldilocks phenomenon’ where there’s an amount that ‘just right,'” Diep said.
