U.S. research exploring the relationship between self-reported recreational cannabis use and sleep outcomes found consumers fell asleep faster than non-users but experienced more nighttime awakenings.
Study findings show the amount of cannabis consumed daily, measured in grams, was inversely related to both sleep onset latency and sleep efficiency, but positively related to how many times subjects woke up over the course of the night.
After controlling for covariates, the study author noted that regression models were statistically significant for predicting the three sleep outcomes.
“Subjective sleep measures did not differ from cannabis users versus non-cannabis users,” the study states.
The study concludes that using weed recreationally may be beneficial for sleep onset, although “increased use does not aid in sleep maintenance.”
That said, recreational cannabis use “may be detrimental” when it comes to sleep efficiency since those reporting they used increased cannabis had
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