By Deirdre Conroy, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan. Results may vary. Stokkete/shutterstock.com If you speak to someone who has suffered from insomnia at all as an adult, chances are good that person has either tried using marijuana, or cannabis, for sleep or has thought about it. This is reflected in the many variations…
First, this study is sized too small and dubiously anecdotal. Second your headline confuses “affect” with “effect”. That someone stoned would sleep with a smile is comparatively uninteresting.
In my repeated experience, the most noticeable sleep disturbance from discontinuing cannabis is about a week of extraordinarily vivid, memorable, protracted dreams.