Dr. Michael Grandner

I haven't seen any strong data that shows that it does much to sleep-wake regulation itself, that its effects on sleep are usually secondary through anxiety and stress.

I could be wrong.

I am not like, there are people who know way more about cannabis and sleep than me.

But from what I've seen, it seems to be going through that indirect path.

Does it have the REM stuff?

I haven't seen anything that shows that it does in the same way.

I mean, it's like most of the studies show it doesn't do much of anything to sleep anyway.

So unlike THC.

Yeah.

Alcohol is probably the most used sleep drug in the world, right?

Right.

So the thing about alcohol, it would surprise nobody to tell you that alcohol can make you fall asleep faster and actually sleep a little bit deeper in the very beginning of the night.

Um, but the thing about alcohol is sorry for the fact that it's not good for you for all kinds of reasons.

It gets out of your system very quickly.

You metabolize it relatively quickly.

And so what often happens with alcohol is when the alcohol leaves your system, it creates activation, creates a rebound.

So often when people are drinking to fall asleep, they fall asleep fast, but then they wake up in the

Anyone who's had sort of too much to drink and fallen asleep may have that experience where you wake up and you're up.

And you're just like, oh, I don't want to be up, but you're not falling back asleep.

And it's because the alcohol creates that reaction.