Dr. Matt Walker

You probably already know.

And so some people will not be as sensitive and therefore they can have a more compressed timeframe of a half-life because it's moving out of their system in a quicker manner.

So again, I'm not trying to be scaremongering.

I think you can have coffee in the morning and you'll be just fine.

That late night coffee, I would like to see you obviate that if you are someone who's doing it.

Yeah, if it's just for the taste, go decaf.

If it's not, I understand that.

In some ways, what I'm talking about is the ideal world.

And drum roll, it turns out that most of us don't live in that.

We live in this thing called the real world.

And so if you are facing a circumstance where if you're under pressure at work or if you're a high-performing athlete and this is it, this is the event, it's all or nothing,

Understand that you are going to sacrifice some sleep at night, but maybe that sacrifice is well worth it.

So again, I'm very open-minded.

I'm not trying to be simply too rigid with this.

It's very interesting if you look firstly at the motivational reasons why people use cannabis.

Based on the published study, somewhere in the top two reasons, sleep.

To fall asleep and stay asleep.

Obviously, usually the principal first reason is just to get high and have the experience and the pleasure of being high, if that's what sort of floats your train.

But certainly it's sleep and what we call a hypnotic to put you asleep from the Greek derivative of the God for sleep.

That is high among the reasons that people will use sleep.