Can marijuana help you sleep? Here's what experts say
Additionally, use of higher amounts of THC over the course of weeks or months may start to interfere with sleep, potentially as the brain starts habituating to the sedating effects, said Deirdre Conroy, the clinical director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program at Michigan Medicine.
“You start to see a little bit longer time to fall asleep, the waking start to return and the sleep stages changing in distribution the more someone uses and the more regular the use,” she said. Read full article here.
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