Can marijuana help you sleep?
From chamomile and lavender to hops, people have long experimented with natural products to get better sleep. Now that marijuana is legal in many states for medical or recreational use, it may mean that more people are using it for this purpose. Some 18 percent of people ages 19 to 30 in the United States say they use marijuana to sleep, a recent study showed.
There are some components of the cannabis plant "that appear to be helpful for some people with regard to sleep," said Staci Gruber, the director of the Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery Program at McLean Hospital and an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
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