Taking medicinal cannabis oil for insomnia does not impair cognition on the following day, finds new placebo-controlled study.
Taking medicinal cannabis oil for insomnia does not impair cognition on the following day
Taking medicinal cannabis oil for insomnia does not impair cognition on the following day, finds new placebo-controlled study.
Taking medicinal cannabis oil for insomnia does not impair cognition on the following day
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I’ve linked to the news release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00213-024-06595-9
From the linked article:
Taking medicinal cannabis oil for insomnia does not impair cognition on the following day
A recent placebo-controlled study investigated the potential effects of medicinal cannabis oil taken for insomnia on cognitive and psychomotor abilities the following day. The study found no significant differences in 27 out of 28 tests of cognitive function, psychomotor skills, and simulated driving performance. The research was published in Psychopharmacology.
The results showed no significant differences in performance on cognitive or psychomotor tests between the days participants received the medicinal cannabis oil and the placebo. The only exception was a slight decrease in accuracy on a test of executive functioning following cannabis oil administration, but this difference was small and not considered clinically meaningful. Similarly, there were no significant differences in simulated driving performance between the two conditions.
“The results of this study indicate that a single oral dose of 10 mg THC (in combination with 200 mg CBD) does not notably impair ‘next day’ cognitive function or driving performance relative to placebo in adults with insomnia disorder who infrequently use cannabis,” the study authors concluded.
Tell that to all the highheads that I know.
yeah I promise you all my recreational marijuana users are using much more than 10 mg a day of thc
I have a theory on this (sample size = 1). Yes it helps me sleep by a lot. Im a terrible sleeper, weed is the first thing that has helped me sleep. Sleeping pills suck. BUT the lack of REM catches up to you after a few days in a row. So i try to mix nights with/without it.
Why would it? I don’t understand where all of these studies that just confirm common knowledge that everyone already knows come from.
Medicinal cannabis oil might be able to help with sleep problems but it might only help sleep when a person also has other health conditions — like anxiety or chronic pain. Treating insomnia alone with CBD doesn’t seem to help unless it’s combined with other cannabinoids (such as THC).