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Researchers examine how cannabis affects sleep and dreams

Emerging research is exploring the links between cannabis use and its effects on sleep and dreaming.

Skinny McBuntu

New scientific work is investigating how cannabis influences sleep, including its impact on dreams. Anecdotal reports have long suggested cannabis use can alter or suppress dreaming, and researchers are now looking more closely at these effects.

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The new science of cannabis and sleep

Some of the wildest anecdotal reports about cannabis use have to do with dreams.

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