My migraines go from 9/10 pain and vomiting , to a 3-4 and no vomiting after one hit. Nothing else has helped like marijuana has

Helps me, i suffer from some heavy PTSD nightmares and smoking weed before bed prevents me from dreaming (or not remembering that i dreamed, not sure), but i wake up well rested and and happy, so it works for me and thats ok!!!!

It helps me tremendously, and has also stopped my severe nightmares and night terrors

To me the biggest question is does it increase deep sleep. For PTSD patients that is the real issue. We already have drugs that can knock someone out if they take enough. The problem is does it push them into the deep restorative sleep. Current medications don’t do that, and some restorative body activity only happens when in that mode. So you are looking at long term neurological damage if patient are unable to reach that sleep state. Fortunately some people are able to get the deep sleep state with weighted blankets, but that doesn’t work for everyone.

I’ve been hearing “we need more evidence” for decades. It helps some people and it doesn’t help others. There. Solved.

I have loud tinnitus, which causes anxiety at night when I try to sleep. THC has helped me tremendously.

It's helped me sleep for the last 20 years, given I'm wired a bit different than your usual and the cannabinoids I intake helps me level out at lower doses.... It's not the best answer (I've never had a good one) but it's better than the pharmaceutical alternatives.

When all comes to all, it's DIFFERENT from person to person on how it affects you.. Some goes crazy with psychosis etc, some people literally becomes millionaires while being high every day and is extremely functional. So better just try it out for a period of time yourself, instead of reading what other people think.

I've had insomnia my whole life (now 39 years old) due to my autism and high anxiety. I started vaping CBD flower 4 years ago and since then I have seen a massive improvement in my insomnia. As a result of getting better sleep my anxiety and depression has greatly reduced, so it's a win win situation for me.

Taking edibles it's definitely helped me sleep

Cannabis is a miracle plant for me. Keeps me sane, gives me a higher consciousness, keeps me off alcohol, makes me relaxed and productive. Enjoy all!

I have chronic insomnia along with Restless Leg Syndrome. Dayvigo (10 mg - a relatively new med) helps me fall asleep and increase REM sleep. When I wake up at 4 or 5 am after being awake on and off during the night (on average 1 hr), a mix of CBD-THC oil (1 mm) helps me fall back asleep but I do wake up groggy. I monitor all of this with a FITBIT. Insomnia is hard to live well with.

As a newbie that wants to invest, you must have these three things in mind 1. Have a long term mindset. 2. Be willing to take risk. 3. Be careful on money usage, if you're not spending to earn back, then stop spending. 4. Never claim to know - Ask questions and it's best you work with a financial advisor.

Research indicates that further research is necessary!

One of the best public speakers i've seen on Ted!

Struggled with insomnia since childhood. Discovered cannabis in high school and I’ve been self medicating ever since. The only time I’ve spoken about my use with a doctor, they merely compared it with alcohol. Fortunately, it’s totally legal in Canada. 🍁

I don't use it anymore, but back when I did this was very much strain as well as dosage dependant for me.

Helped the pain in my knees, made me sleep better, and if it was Sativa it helped me with creativity as a Chef.

I definitely should go sleep cause I read it at first as "does cannibalism help sleep" 😅

I tried it. It helps until the body builds tolerance to it and then it's either keep upping the dosage or it becomes ineffective. Also long term use causes short term memory loss, demotivation and depression. Plus the stoned hangover the next day isn't something I want to live with. All substances have their tolerance and side effects.

Definitely helps with FALLING asleep, but it impairs the deeper levels of sleep and prevents a well-rested feeling

A huge qualitative research (within a heuristic methodology) could be interesting to study the effet of cannabis on sleep. There are so many cannabis users out there who could share their experience with cannabis and sleep. As a single person testimony wouldn't say much, thousands of them will certainly. Then you'll have data on heavy and light users within a variety of different usage contexts. and then, with those analyzed data, you can design very precise and more complicated research with only few participants.

I’ve been prescribed this for insomnia and it works.

Its benefits differs greatly from person m person. I started taking it for arthritic pain relief, but I had a different experience than my friends who suggested it and who had only positive experiences. For me it helped with my pain, sure, but it also radically changed my personality, triggering paranoia and make my existing anxiety and depression worse, along with making my mood swings far more severe. I became addicted and didn’t even know due to the urban myth that it’s not addictive. It took me far longer than I should have to recognize the negative impact it was having and it nearly ruined my life. I’m far from anti-THC. I write this because I believe if someone wants to try it, they should be extra self-aware and educated in the possible positive and negative effects.

I have severe chronic pain and insomnia for the last 29 years and I swear by CBD for both. It actually allows me to get some deep sleep (as tracked by a good smartwatch).

One thing I noticed for sure is I dont have dreams as often. I'm not sure if that means I'm sleeping better or worse. When I stop using cannabis I have crazy vivid dreams and when i wake up I usually feel exhausted like my brain just ran a marathon overnight. I've always had trouble falling asleep I feel like cannabis does help with that but its the after effect that does it for me. Like if I take cannabis and try to go to sleep right then it actually keeps me awake

What a waste of 11 mins. Thank goodness it was on 2x

To answer your title question, yes. It can.

As a Oz a week smoker of 25+ years I'd say it will definitely put you to sleep, if it's decent nug but in the long term it'll mess with the quality of said sleep. Ive quit many times over the years and I get ruthless insomnia for about 3 weeks and then my sleep largely goes back to normal, but much better quality and waaaaaay more dreams.

To each their own with Canabis and in that sense, its very different than Alcohol. You don't drink and it "affects you differently", its the same for all. Cannabis is very different. I am always extremly anxious for 30 minutes, only to be mega relaxed for the next 2h. That initial anxiety state I cannot handle at all. I do sleep like a baby and feel refreshed the next day and sometimes I do want to get high just for that sublime sleep, but the initial anxiety is a no go for me. Edibles are best, but very hard to plan for, high ia more gradual, but very unpredictable. So long mary jane

Yes

I like marijuana, but I'm not a fan; occasionally, I suffer from anxiety and the symptoms worsen with a puff. Also, the mere fact that the lungs receive smoke, of any kind, is harmful and increases heart rate, which often contributes to worsening some symptoms.

It helped me get off antidepressants, lost 30 pounds, and back to my usual weight. Feeling so much more content with life.

Cannabis helps some people and it doesn't help others and there are some people who are hyper sensitive to weed and it makes them crazy. Personally it helps me with pain so I don't take pills, and to relieve anxiety from being autistic. It can make me sleepy or not, depending on the strain and the amount of sleep I've had and how much I've eaten. It doesn't always put me to sleep but I'm not likely to sleep without it, if that makes sense.

This is avery objective nightfall exposition .thank you

it would be nice to see if the effects of CBD can help with ADHD symptoms. i think the reason it works for some folks as a sedative rather than an upper is because of that. the same adderall prescription that can calm down an ADHD-er can make a normie turn into a white tornado and start cleaning up their house from top to bottom.

Thanks for share your knowledge. I also have a problem to sleep in the night. this pattern is long-lasting from my child period. But nowadays I can change it to have a normal pattern of sleeping. Because I try to do diverse activity and make my body lose the stamina. As a result, it makes me to have a deep sleep. What I want to say about is that I think use the cannabis for better sleep is negative for human. Human cannot rely on the drug for their health. It is necessary for them to organise a healthy life cycle to tackle this problem, Not with the cannabis.

It helps me sleep. And i dont remember dreams. And i awake in a good mood.

Better then popping pills(prescribed), booze, gambling,better then sitting there with your other thoughts, i sleep better, i moderate like a cup of coffee, or an anxiety attack.

I sure hope this scientist gets the funding to do larger studies.

Sativa gives you energy and Indica makes you sleepy. It really is that simple!

Its great for sleep but lets talk about how it interferes with REM stages. I never dream, and boy if I dont smoke, i have some of the nastiest vivid dreams lol. I know this is about insomnia though..

I live in Canada and am able to grow legal weed, thank god. I'm 71 and have the various issues of the laboring classes at that age. I don't know that the weed lets me sleep more, nor directly moderate pain issues...I don't think. I think that what it does is let me bear it, like a slight veil. Though it is not something I'd recommend for getting things done. Planning, maybe. 😉

I am now 56 and have smoked both since I was 15. I've been off it for 3 weeks now and things are going great. Only I sleep a lot of short sleeps, which ultimately makes me very tired. I'm on the right track but as far as sleeping goes...zzz..zzz.....and I remember almost every dream, but I did that before I stopped.

My quality of life is now 8/10 with cannabis. And now, after 20 years of beeing a criminal, my country GER just legalized it.

Also most of my friends below 40 have had heart attacks They were regular users of Cannabis

I make salve with it for my achey bones, best thing ever. But when I smoke, I don't dream when I sleep.

Sativa keeps me awake and my mind races. Indica helps me relax and sleep.

When it happens let us know. My husband has severe insomnia and my mother uses CBD medicinally for chronic pain and her disabilities.

Also helps with nausea/vomiting having nothing to do with cancer/chemo.

Cannabis does have the potential to treat many ailments but its effects tend to vary from individual to individual. I had cannabis as a recreational substance and it made me reclusive and depressed but my other friends get high so more research needs to be done to ensure that it works consistently for everyone

CBT for anything does not work. Why? It is treating a symptom, not the root cause. A joint gets more to the root, IMO.

Totally helps me sleep. The first time I smoked was the best nights sleep. I smoke every night.

Weed was toxic to me.. I’ll never touch the stuff ever again..

Germany invites you to run a larger study.

CBD - yes. THC - not for me. Too many bad trips over the years.

"Sorry I'm late, and welcome all. I'm here to talk about ehm.. cannabis. Hihi. That was it. Can it help you sleep? Yes, yes. It can. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Cheerios."

I use THC for obtrusive thoughts and in the evening CBN helps me sleep.

My goodness.

The only downside is the suppression of dreaming. Being a creative person and not being able to get into a lucid dream, after smoking, is a bummer.

Cannabis doesn't directly much help my insomnia... But it does help me relax and calm down. Which makes sleep possible sometimes.

As a two decade plus smoker, I am mainly here for the comments of my fellow smokers. "My biology is totally different than everyone else on the planet and its "helped" me sleep for X amount of years."

Not me. Makes my thoughts race with no positive result. It's legal here in Michigan, and I have no desire whatsoever to use it again.

I have multiple sclerosis with 13 lesions in my brain and 4 on the highest point of my spine... I do not take ANY MAN MADE DRUGS

Some strains are really good for sleep and some aren't.

My 30 years of research says it definitely helps with sleep.

Is it like alcohol though? You’re not getting good quality sleep?

I think the jury’s out on this topic. It helps for sleep, anxiety, breathing, pain, etc.

I'm sorry, but 24 participants for 14 days is not a particularly large study, especially for something that you're saying is suffered by between 1 in 6 and 1 in 3 people depending whether you want to give the benefit of the doubt to only count the chronic sufferers.

Thank you.

"Just wait until our lab is selling a pill. Don't grow it at home and experiment. Just wait." Forget that, I'm Doctor Dingo and I prescribe you weed extracts. Go get high, safely.

Happy 4/20 everyone btw

i surprised that study with 24 participants belongs to those largests...

I read that as "Can cannibals help you sleep?"

She descibes a protocol that delivers the THC completely differently (ingested) then makes jokes about having a joint (smoking). This would be like describing the driving habits of North America by watching 24 hyrbrid Honda drivers in Fesno only.

It's a miracle worker for me, I sleep like a log thru the night and wake up refreshed. One of Medical Professions best kept secret. Just keep pushing big pharma's pills with their horrific side effects.

If you think it's complicated it is because you make it complicated. It' all on you Doc.

Matthew Walker's team found that it reduced REM sleep, so the quality of sleep would be worse than a normal night's sleep.

For sleep , L-Theanine and Ashwagandha.... Knocks em flat!

The talk made me sleep haha

Like the sentiment! However Bad study. How do you blind an intoxicant? Ie if your placebo doesn’t make you high. It’s not a great placebo. Sounds like research-as-advertisement-for-a-proprietary-blend-company-I- want to start

Is this from TED2024? For those who don't have insomnia, couldn't THC disrupt sleep cycles and lead to less quality of sleep?

Had the best sleeps on weed. Out to it cold. No dreams. Amazing.

Man I can't understand most of the words especially the long ones 😭

What a misleading title. She's talking about weird drug they made in their lab and did one study lol. Cannabis plant is already the most studied plant on Earth. To date, there are now over 20,000 published studies or reviews in the scientific literature pertaining to cannabis and its active compounds. And what have we learned from these 20,000+ studies? Not surprisingly, quite a lot. For starters, we know that cannabis and its active constituents are uniquely safe and effective as therapeutic compounds. Unlike most prescription or over-the-counter medications, cannabinoids are virtually non-toxic to health cells or organs, and they are incapable of causing the user to experience a fatal overdose. Unlike opiates, cannabinoids do not depress the central nervous system, and as a result they possess a virtually unparalleled safety profile, it's safer than coffee.

24 patients......most comprehensive. Yea. True, but that's more like those advertisements to visit e.g." the biggest red painted tower in the state that has a sparrow figurine with a lil crown on top of it (it's the play tower of my neighbours son btw)" 😂

"Duh."

Yup, it can

Yes it can, but get an Indica high percentage. Nothing complicated really😅

I can't sleep without it 😅

"It's illegal to drive a vehicle under the influence of marijuana." "But why?" "Because it makes you tired." "Then shouldn't governments make sure businesses pay their employees enough where they don't have to work multiple jobs in a single day just to scrape by in life? I feel safer driving next to someone who just took a few hits rather than next to someone who's tired from just working the last 16 hours straight and in a rush to get home."

You partnered with a pharmaceutical company to research the effects of a drug? And you want to be taken seriously???

Cannabis saved my life.

Nothing works better for sleep than a low dose gummy of a pure indica, not sativa.

24 people, that is not even close to a useful population size to do a study. Also, we know that other substances like benzodiazepines, that work wel when used 2 weeks or less, cause serious sleep disorders in the long term. Basically this study is meaningless. And independent research is needed. There are extremely few valid RCT’s and meta-analyses without a high bias risk and with a large enough population on cannabis health benefits and those that are valid and on a large population so far have only found some evidence for effectiveness of CBD in Dravet syndrome, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and Tuberous sclerosis complex. That’s it.

Hmm yes it can but the sleep your getting isn’t the same. Dr Huberman and a actual expert on sleep talk about it. Same with alcohol it can get you to sleep but it’s not the same sleep.

Why it's illegal is the fact, that pharma does not have a patent on cannabis.

Strain differences? Entourage Effect? Eating before go to bed? Science is complicated and so often an excuse to NOT help people.

It helps a lot,to the point you dont even remember with what you dreamt off!!

The second draft about various LGBTQ sexual abnormalities: In this draft, I present the method of treatment of the mentioned case, which according to the previous note, I have personally called it sexual abnormality. In men of any group, a biopsy of the tissue of his left testicle, that is, the side of His body, which carries his heart, should be removed and the tissues obtained should be cultured in the laboratory. The second biopsy should be done from the bone marrow of their coccyx and tissue culture should be done. depending on their anatomical condition and physical changes. All these tissues should be provided orally and biodrug to the person for a certain period. So, each person has bio-drugs prepared from their own genitals. This treatment system will cause their mental treatment. And the point is that the volunteer must live alone during the treatment with bio-drugs. This is a treatment that It has not been implemented yet, but according to the mental treatment system, it usually takes between four to six months to see the therapeutic effect. In this treatment, the man will experience sexual abnormality, and will gradually have masculine and original mental states. After completing the mental treatment His reproductive system should be operated easily and with existing methods so that this man can return to normal state. In women, biodrug samples should be taken from the tissue of the ovary on the left side of the body, the marrow of the coccyx, and the immature or complete egg from the ovary. The left has been prepared, cultured and prepared. And after the mental treatment, the reproductive system surgery should be performed. Writing this note and even before writing, I was very upset and I am. This is where human work has been taken! The existing LGBTQ population has not had any interference in their birth. They have the right to enjoy all psychological, life and financial security. It is very brazen. This means conscious propaganda to create a desire for homosexuality in people with a normal sexual status. The media should not present marriage and adoption of children, and men getting pregnant, etc., in programs with a known purpose. Rainbow people are respectable, but as rainbow people and not normal people, because their effect on the mental and psychological state of society is nothing but destruction, ugliness and rudeness. They are respectable just like the population of rare frogs is respectable. / All the intellectual property rights of this note, according to the UN intellectual property law, belong to me, Reza Dadashi, a citizen of Bandar Anzali in Iran with the national code 4282098112, and in case of execution, in my place of residence in $ US and all in cash, including the intellectual value, claim can be