Dr. Michael Breus

There's something called CBN.

There's something called CBG.

All of this is inside the cannabis plant.

If, for example, you go to a dispensary and you're interested in finding a product, what you want is you want a product with low THC, so low amounts of things that would increase your heart rate and lower REM sleep, but higher amounts of CBN as in nighttime because there's actually data to show that CBN lowers arousal and makes it much easier for you to stay asleep.

Now, by the way, you can buy CBN without any THC whatsoever if that's what you wanted to do also.

So there's a lot of different options out there.

But to be clear, nobody should be getting stoned and going to bed just like nobody should be getting drunk and going to sleep, right?

All of your consumption should be earlier in the daytime for recreation, right?

Now, if you wanted to try to use cannabis to help you sleep, then that's a whole different ballgame.

And there's actually some products in the market that are trying to do that now.

Yep.

So there's five stages of sleep.

Okay.

There's wake.

Believe it or not, wake is considered a stage of sleep.

There's stage one, which is just the entry point to sleep.

By the way, you normally get maybe one to two percent of your night is stage one.

And literally, it's just the doorway that opens you into the unconscious.

It's not something that you're supposed to spend a lot of time in.

It's just kind of it's this transitionary period, a lot like meditation is stage one sleep.