Dr. Michael Grandner

Well, psychologically, where it's just like you get that tolerance.

So you're taking it, and you're sleeping sort of normal, and then when you take it away, your insomnia ramps up, but then it'll usually fade back to baseline.

It was just a reaction.

But you don't know that you think that you're using the THC to keep the bad insomnia away when really whenever you pull that bandaid off, it's going to hurt for a little bit, but then it'll be fine.

And then the only other thing I was going to mention for athletes is the increased injury risks due to THC because of the motivation and the coordination stuff that you get sometimes that like whatever your sleep problem is.

If you're thinking of using THC for it, there's probably a better option that's less harmful.

All I know is that people who are using it more, I mean, we don't have great data on the timing of use.

That would be a cool study to do.

But it just does seem to be that there's more injuries.

There's the daytime amotivation.

And amotivation being not just like the stoner sitting around like, oh, I don't want to do anything all day.

But if you're an athlete on the field...

You need every split second to make these choices, to be paying attention, to be thinking ahead and all that stuff.

And you've got just a fraction of a piece of a cloud there.

it gets in your way and, and one wrong step, you know, could be twisting something, you know, I guess just, just one of those things of like, there's probably a better option out there.

I mean, I'm just saying, but, but that's THC.

So THC does have effects on sleep.

They could be relatively short term.

They could produce a rebound when you stop taking it.

And there could be REM effects.