That is, if we're ever going to fully understand the pros and cons of weed once and for all. So in order to better understand the effects of marijuana on a physiological level, the DEA needs to reschedule marijuana to reflect its potential for medical use. Schedule 1 means the drug has no medicinal value - and running trials is the only way to prove it can have value. That's because, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration, weed is a Schedule 1 drug, the same category as heroin, peyote and Ecstasy. As much as anecdotal evidence stands to at least pave the way, our physiological understanding of the substance as a whole is barely more than personal experience. There's a problem with this whole story: The science is inconclusive because marijuana research is barely crawling. You might optimize stages prior to REM, but if you cut into REM, you're hampering your efforts." "But if you're using cannabis to help you sleep, your sleep architecture is not optimal. Weed makes that brain-refreshment stage less effective. While Solomon (and the adaptation of the health report) says that stage 3 sleep is probably what repairs your body the best, Hill says stage 4, or REM sleep, is what refreshes your brain. "Marijuana seems to make that stage longer, and people get a more restful sleep when is longer." Perry Solomon, chief medical officer at HelloMD, a digital health care platform for medical marijuana, says it's the third stage of sleep - deep sleep or slow-wave sleep - that seems to let your body "renew and repair itself," as an adaptation of a health report from Harvard Medical School stated. Stage 3 is "the most sensitive to cannabis," Solomon told Mic. Weed makes that brain-refreshment stage less effective.ĭr. Evidence suggests that's lowered by marijuana." Stage 4, or REM sleep, is what refreshes your brain. "That's the restorative stage for your sleep. Kevin Hill, director of the Substance Abuse Consultation Service, Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse at McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, told Mic.
"The key sleep state is the REM sleep," or stage 4, Dr. The most important question here: which stage of sleep is more important, stage 3 or stage 4?
But after that, its impact on your sleep is uncertain.
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