
TUESDAY, April 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Teenagers who use marijuana to fall asleep may be setting themselves up for insomnia later in life, a new study suggests.
It is widely known that many people rely on marijuana as a sleep aid. In a 2018 survey of 1,000 marijuana users in Colorado, 74% reported that they use it to fall asleep.
Still, there is little evidence to suggest that marijuana use actually results in sleep improvements. "There's a lot of research on sleep and cannabis, but it's a little mixed," explained study co-author Evan Winiger, a graduate student in behavioral genetics, psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado, in Boulder.
In the study, Winiger and his colleagues analyzed the sleep habits and history of marijuana use among 1,882 teens from...