Insomnia Due To Cannabis

[Tomthehippie]

Can any1 help?

http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?p=678056#post678056

[LIP]

No, cannabis doesnt cause insomnia. Are you on any other medication. It might be because your smoking a sativa which is a heady high. Get an indica strain, smoke as much as you normally do, then lay down, listen to some music and you'll fall alseep. If that doesny help, then maybe you should see your doctor about pills. If you do, make sure you ask if smoking cannabis with them will cause any effects. He shouldnt mind that you smoke cannabis, if he knows whats he's talking about he'll know its actually healthy for you.

[JustSayNo]

it is the Cannabis causing your insomnia,

i'm going to start sounding like a Cannabis basher soon but I have known a good few people who have smoked through my life and an unreasonably high proportion of them have had sleep problems,

they fool themselves by insisting that Cannabis eventually gets them off to sleep,

in the beginning this would have been true but as your body is conditioned to regular exposure to Cannabis it finds it harder and harder to relax into a state that will allow deep sleep,

Cannabis in all reality should not be used on a daily basis, it should be used at the weekends, like going out at the weekend for a drink.

[benagain]

sometimes it can help me sleep, but only after the high has wore off. I'm a night owl anyway, so whether I smoke or not, I'm still awake too late.

[Tomthehippie]

yea i realy think its the cannabis.. i stoped for awhile and i was sleeping fine.. then i got a que smoked the lot over 2 weeks now i cant sleep again.. but its reeaaly getting 2 me!!

[Tomthehippie]

i would realy like to find some hard facts to prove that it is cannabis thats stopping me from sleeping.. any`1 got any ideas bout this?

[Az.]

Yeah cannabis interferes with your sleep....specifically with your REM period of sleep....it may knock you out, but it doesn't allow you to get the period of sleep where your body/brain rejuvinates....

I thought about this the other day, and I guess its up to you to decide if getting hardly any sleep is better than getting more sleep, but waking up just as tired.....

I guess it also depends what time you go to sleep....cause the effects of the weed will have worn off halfway through the night...so if you go to bed a couple of hours earlier than you normally would then you should get at least a half decent nights sleep...

lol this is just my thoughts by the way....After the first paragraph I don't know if it will actually work or not!

[friendowl]

i cant sleep till i get high.
i will get hyper as fuck at night
if i dont blaze.
as soon as i hit the bong ill get sleepy.
also
if i wake up like at three in the morn
cuz the dogs barking or whatever i have
to take a bong rip again to knock back out.
feels so good to lay in the dark with my chest
aching cuz the weed is fucking potent.then
wake up like hours later feeling great

[UnViaje]

fukn workout till you got no energy left to stay awake
no shit

[friendowl]

thats the jail method

[CrAzYpOtHeAd]

I don't have problems sleeping and i do smoke daily most of the time (i shud'nt really cuz im only 15 and i think it'd be better if i only toked on weekend) but yea, i ussaly go bed about 12 and i ussaly fall asleep within half an hour. I acculy get tired really easy (without weed i mean). go bed about 12, wake up about 7:30 for school, and when i get bck from school i ussaly already feel very tired. But i ussaly don't go bed high, i ussaly go bed when the highs worn off and im burnt out. But most of the time i go bed without smokin anybud. Mybe you shud just toke in the daytime and avoid smoking before sleeping.

[UnViaje]

lmao, pinche owl, good observation homes

actually, like i've said here before, if i smoke n then fall asleep sometime after, i'm refreshed in less time than when i go to sleep sober, other fools here too. shit, in fact, i was an insomniac when i was younger, before i started smoking

[drinksmokesleep]

Tomthehippie........do you smoke your weed with tobacco.........

Its just nicotine is a stimulant.......
hope that helps

Peace

[slipknotpsycho]

i already posted my thoughts on it, in the original thread, but here it is again:

you say you've been an insomniac for 2 years.. ok then you say you quit smoking cigs 2 years ago... one of the withdrawls is restless-ness/sleeplessness.. i'm no doctor but that does seem to be too much of a coincidence to me... if i was going to make an educated guess i'd say it's due to you quitting tobacco...

[slipknotpsycho]

btw, my thoughts don't nessicarily dictate any physical connection between quitting tobacco and the insomnia, because it's widely agreed upon that nicotien only stays in your system for like 72 hours, but it could be mentally connected to it... the human brain is capable of so much, woudln't suprise me if that was the problem.

[benagain]

i will say this..nothing beats a long nights sleep when you've went to sleep high as fuck.

[Tomthehippie]

i do smoke with a negligible amount of tobacco.. but i only ever make strong joints basically pure.

[drinksmokesleep]

What happens if you stop smoking weed....can you sleep then..the only way to find out if it is pot is to cut it out for a while.........the only way to be sure if it is really bugging you

You tried the doctor mate..he might just give you something to help you sleep if it is persistant insomnia(ie you keep going back and bugging his ass)

Im not advocating using Benzo's........but sometimes you only need to get back into a normal pattern...just MHO

Anyway good luck mate insommnia is a fucker.......

The only sure fire cure i found was a night out followed by vigorous sex...

Peace

Drinks

[halo]

Shit i have had bad sleeping problems for the past couple years too. Except i just started smoking about 3 months ago. I am almost always up past 1 am and i get up at about 6 45 am. Except one weekends. I sleep for at least 9 hours a day on weekends. But i can function easily on little sleep. And sometimes i do use cannabis to help me sleep.

[Ganj]

Can any1 help?

http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?p=678056#post678056

Insomnia can be indirectly linked to cannabis usage. A lot of things cause insomnia. Depression (from personal experience) can cause insomniac behaviour, as well can anxiety. Paranoia and anxiety go hand in hand--cannabis usage has been linked to paranoia. And axiety can lead to depression. And we all know what severe depression leads to. Basically, if you keep smoking marijuana you'll kill yourself and I use that phrase loosely.